Date:	Friday 29 November 1963
Time:	11:10
Type:	Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Purdue University
Registration:	N386T
MSN:	20411
Year of manufacture:	1944
Total airframe hrs:	12241 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Morgantown, WV -   United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:	Lafayette-Purdue University Airport, IN (LAF/KLAF)
Destination airport:	Morgantown Airport, WV (MGW/KMGW)
Investigating agency:	CAB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The DC-3 departed Lafayette, IN at 08:36 for a ferry flight to Morgantown. The plane was on a VOR instrument approach to land when it struck trees and crashed on a wooded hillside.
Weather at 11:18 EST was Ceiling 600 feet broken, 800 feet overcast, visibility 2 miles, light rain and fog; wind north, 12 knots with gusts to 20 knots, altitude setting 29.42in.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's execution of an instrument approach in an aircraft not equipped with navigational instrumentation appropriate to the ground facilities being used."

CAB Accident Report File No. 1-0017
ICAO Accident Digest No.15 - Volume II, Circular 78-AN/66 (10-16)

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