Status:	Final
Date:	27 NOV 1973
Time:	21:29 EST
Type:	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31
Operator:	Eastern Air Lines
Registration:	N8967E
C/n / msn:	47267/361
First flight:	1968
Total airframe hrs:	15615
Engines:	2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7
Crew:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 21
Total:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 26
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	Akron/Canton Regional Airport, OH (CAK) (United States of America)
Phase:	Landing (LDG)
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Pittsburgh International Airport, PA (PIT/KPIT), United States of America
Destination airport:	Akron/Canton Regional Airport, OH (CAK/KCAK), United States of America
Flightnumber:	300

Narrative:
The DC-9 landed 12-27 knots too fast on runway 01, approx. 2400 feet down the runway. The aircraft overran the runway, traversed 110 feet of unpaved ground and plunged over a 38 feet embankment. Weather included low ceilings, light rain, fog, 1,5 mile visibility.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The captain's decision to complete the landing at an excessive airspeed and at a distance too far down a wet runway to permit the safe stopping of the aircraft. Factors which contributed to the accident were: 1) lack of airspeed awareness during the final portion of the approach, 2) an erroneous indication of the speed command indicator, and 3) hydroplaning."

Events:

Sources:
» Flight International 23.1.75(87)
» NTSB-AAR-74-12