| Date: | Wednesday 27 December 1972 |
| Time: | 22:02 |
| Type: |  Lockheed L-1329 JetStar I |
| Owner/operator: | Fluor Corp |
| Registration: | N400M |
| MSN: | 5008 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Saranac Lake, NY -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Grand Island-Hall County Regional Airport, NE (GRI/KGRI) |
| Saranac Lake-Adirondack Airport, NY (SLK/KSLK) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Collided with trees and crashed while circling at 2140 feet in an area where MDA was 2960 feet.
PROBABLE CAUSE:
pilot in command - improper IFR operation
FACTOR(S):
weather - low ceiling
weather - fog
weather - snow
weather briefing - unknown/not reported
weather forecast - weather considerably worse than forecast
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
Location
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