| Date: | Sunday 3 August 1969 |
| Time: | 15:45 |
| Type: |  Boeing 707-323C |
| Owner/operator: | American Airlines |
| Registration: | N7567A |
| MSN: | 19382/627 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Fort Worth, TX -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Fort Worth (unknown airport), TX |
| Fort Worth (unknown airport), TX | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Cessna 172K (N79073) collided with the left horizontal stabilizer of an American Airlines Boeing 707 at 2600 m, lost control and crashed. The 707, which was on a training flight, carried out a safe emergency landing.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Failure of both pilots to see and avoid the other aircraft."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
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