ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334390
| Date: | Sunday 6 October 1957 |
| Time: | 16:55 |
| Type: |  Lockheed 18-56-23 Lodestar |
| Owner/operator: | Standard Oil Company |
| Registration: | N80G |
| MSN: | 18-2351 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4608 hours |
| Engine model: | Wright R-1820-72WA |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 11 km E of Uniontown, PA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Hot Springs-Ingalls Field, VA (HSP/KHSP) |
| Johnstown Airport, PA (JST/KJST) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft departed Hot Springs at 15:45 and climbed to an altitude below the clouds. Just over an hour after takeoff the Lodestar struck a mountain at an altitude of 2,338 feet, 162 feet below the top. Investigation revealed that the aircraft struck the east side of a 20-degree mountain slope on a heading of 65 degrees magnetic while flying nearly parallel to the mountain ridge. The aircraft, in level attitude, first struck the top of a small tree 35 feet above the ground, and then cut a swath approximately 510 feet long and 80 feet wide through the trees.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the action of the pilot in attempting VFR flight under instrument conditions over mountainous terrain."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 2-0062
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