Date:	Tuesday 27 November 1951
Time:	11:49
Type:	Douglas DC-3-201C
Owner/operator:	Eastern Air Lines
Registration:	N25646
MSN:	2234
Year of manufacture:	1940
Engine model:	Wright R-1820-202A
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 20
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Minor, repaired
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Ocala, FL -   United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Gainesville-J R Alison Municipal Airport, FL (GNV/KGNV)
Destination airport:	Ocala-Taylor Field, FL (OCF/KOCF)
Investigating agency:	CAB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Eastern Flight 167 took off from Gainsville at 11:26 on a VFR flight plan to Ocala. At 11:45 a Civil Air Patrol Piper L-4J (45-5151, cn 13891) took off from
Ocala-Taylor Field runway 21. The Piper was climbing after a left turn when it collided with the DC-3 at 700-800 feet. The DC-3's no. 1 prop made several span-wise cuts into the left wing of the Piper. Control was lost and the Piper crashed into a heavily wooded area, killing the pilot. The DC-3 circled the airport for a few minutes and landed at 12:10.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of the pilots of both aircraft to observe the other in time to take the necessary evasive action."

CAB File No. 1-0102
ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest, Circular 38-AN/33 (25-27)

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