ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334068
| Date: | Sunday 1 February 1959 |
| Time: | 23:40 |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3B-202 |
| Owner/operator: | General Airways |
| Registration: | N17314 |
| MSN: | 1924 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1937 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 49051 hours |
| Engine model: | Wright R-1820-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 28 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 11 km SE of Kerrville Airport, TX (ERV) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Pueblo Memorial Airport, CO (PUB/KPUB) |
| San Antonio-Lackland AFB, TX (SKF/KSKF) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The General Airways DC-3 was being used for a Civil Air Movement of military personnel from Boise to Lackland AFB via Pueblo. On the final leg of the flight icing weather conditions were encountered. The accretion of ice on the aircraft became critical and the flight crew attempted to reach Kerrville but ran out of fuel, crash-landed in trees and caught fire.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The captain's poor judgement in continuing into known and dangerous icing conditions."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest Circular 62-AN/57 (79-81)
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