Accident description
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| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 12 NOV 1995 |
| Time: | 00:55 EST |
| Type: | McDonnell Douglas MD-83 |
| Operator: | American Airlines |
| Registration: | N566AA |
| C/n / msn: | 49348/1374 |
| First flight: | 1987 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 27628 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 73 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 78 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | Repaired |
| Location: | East Granby, CT (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL (ORD/KORD), United States of America |
| Windsor Locks-Bradley International Airport, CT (BDL/KBDL), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 1572 |
American Airlines flight 1572, was substantially damaged when it impacted trees while on approach to runway 15 at Bradley International Airport. The airplane also impacted an instrument landing system antenna as it landed short of the runway on grassy, even terrain.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The flightcrew’s failure to maintain the required minimum descent altitude until the required visual references identifiable with the runway were in sight. Contributing factors were the failure of the BDL approach controller to furnish the flightcrew with a current altimeter setting, and the flightcrew’s failure to ask for a more current setting." Sources:
» NTSB/AAR-96/05
