Status:
Date:	27 DEC 1968
Time:	20:22 CST
Type:	Convair CV-580
Operator:	North Central Airlines
Registration:	N2045
C/n / msn:	369
First flight:	1956
Crew:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4
Passengers:	Fatalities: 24 / Occupants: 41
Total:	Fatalities: 27 / Occupants: 45
Ground casualties:	Fatalities: 1
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL (ORD) (United States of America)
Phase:	Approach (APR)
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Milwaukee-General Mitchell Airport, WI (MKE/KMKE), United States of America
Destination airport:	Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL (ORD/KORD), United States of America
Flightnumber:	458

Narrative:
The pilot lost control of the aircraft when performing a go-around in bad weather (200 feet ceiling, light rain and fog). The Convair crashed nearly inverted on a hangar.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "Spatial disorientation of the captain precipitated by atmospheric refraction of either the approach lights or landing lights at a critical point in the approach wherein the crew was transitioning between flying by reference to flight instruments and by visual reference to the ground."

Events:

Sources:
» WCAA 2nd ed. / C.Y. Kimura