| Date: | Tuesday 4 September 1962 |
| Time: | 21:00 |
| Type: |  Lockheed 18-56-24 Lodestar |
| Owner/operator: | Ashland Oil and Refining Company |
| Registration: | N1000F |
| MSN: | 18-2463 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 6557 hours |
| Engine model: | Wright R-1820-87 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 13 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Lake Milton, OH -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Buffalo Airport, NY |
| Ashland Regional Airport, KY (DWU/KDWU) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
At approximately 19:51, Lodestar N1000F contacted the Buffalo Tower for taxi instructions and was cleared to runway 13, and shortly thereafter the flight was cleared for takeoff. N1000F departed Buffalo at 19:59. The flight operated routinely to the vicinity of Youngstown, Ohio. It reported over Youngstown at 20:51 at 8,000 feet, estimating arrival over the Briggs VOR at 21:09. Before reaching the VOR however, the aircraft lost its right wing in flight, crashed and burned in a field.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was a malfunction of the electric elevator trim tab unit which resulted in aircraft uncontrollability and subsequent structural failure of the wing."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 2-0347
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