Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 28 APR 1977 |
| Time: | 20:38 EDT |
| Type: | Hawker Siddeley HS-125-600A |
| Operator: | Southern Company Services |
| Registration: | N40PC |
| C/n / msn: | 256010 |
| First flight: | 1973 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 1904 |
| Engines: | 2 Rolls Royce 601-22 Viper |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near McLean, VA (United States of America)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Washington-National Airport, DC (DCA/KDCA), United States of America |
| Birmingham Airport, AL (BHM/KBHM), United States of America |
Failure or malfunction of an undetermined nature in the pilot's attitude indicating system led to a loss of control and overstress of the aircraft structure. The HS-125 was climbing through 9300 feet after departing Washington-National.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A failure or malfunction of an undetermined nature in the pilot's attitude indicating system which led to a loss of control and overstress of the aircraft structure." Sources:
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Distance from Washington-National Airport, DC to Birmingham Airport, AL as the crow flies is 1043 km (652 miles).
Distance from Washington-National Airport, DC to Birmingham Airport, AL as the crow flies is 1043 km (652 miles).
