Détails:
The West Coast Airlines Fairchild F-27, N703, crashed into Great Salt Lake, Utah. The aircraft was destroyed by impact and its suffered fatal injuries.
This was a pilot training flight of a company captain for a type rating check in the Fairchild F-27. It was being given by a company check pilot. Upon satisfactory completion, the trainee captain was to be issued an F-27 type rating by an FAA inspector who was aboard to monitor the check.
During a simulated emergency descent the aircraft crashed into the lake.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The crew's lack of vigilance, for undetermined reasons, in not checking the descent before striking the water."
accident date: 17-01-1963
type: Fairchild F-27
registration: N2703
| Statuts: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
| Date: | jeudi 17 janvier 1963 |
| Heure: | 15:53 |
| Type/Sous-type: |  Fairchild F-27 |
| Compagnie: | West Coast Airlines |
| Immatriculation: | N2703 |
| Numéro de série: | 6 |
| Année de Fabrication: | 1958 |
| Heures de vol: | 11708 |
| Moteurs: | 2 Rolls-Royce Dart 511 |
| Equipage: | victimes: 3 / à bord: 3 |
| Passagers: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 0 |
| Total: | victimes: 3 / à bord: 3 |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Détruit |
| Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Lieu de l'accident: | Great Salt Lake, UT ( Etats-Unis d'Amérique)
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| Phase de vol: | En cours de manoeuvre (MNV) |
| Nature: | Entrainement |
| Aéroport de départ: | Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, UT (SLC/KSLC), Etats-Unis d'Amérique |
| Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, UT (SLC/KSLC), Etats-Unis d'Amérique | |
| Numéro de vol: | 703 |
The West Coast Airlines Fairchild F-27, N703, crashed into Great Salt Lake, Utah. The aircraft was destroyed by impact and its suffered fatal injuries.
This was a pilot training flight of a company captain for a type rating check in the Fairchild F-27. It was being given by a company check pilot. Upon satisfactory completion, the trainee captain was to be issued an F-27 type rating by an FAA inspector who was aboard to monitor the check.
During a simulated emergency descent the aircraft crashed into the lake.
Probable Cause:
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The crew's lack of vigilance, for undetermined reasons, in not checking the descent before striking the water."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
» ICAO Accident Digest No.15 - Volume I, Circular 78-AN/66 (3-7)Photos
accident date: 17-01-1963
type: Fairchild F-27
registration: N2703
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