ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 330615
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| Date: | Tuesday 18 January 1972 |
| Time: | 07:45 |
| Type: |  Learjet 25 |
| Owner/operator: | Tandy Corp. |
| Registration: | N658TC |
| MSN: | 25-044 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1969 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 3,1 km NW of Victoria County-Foster Airport, TX (VCT) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Fort Worth-Meacham Field, TX (FTW/KFTW) |
| Victoria County-Foster Airport, TX (VCT/KVCT) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Struck the ground and a power pole 1,7nm short of runway 12L during a non precision approach to Victoria County-Foster Airport, Texas.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The lack of altitude awareness on the part of the flightcrew while descending into known weather conditions which were conductive to a rapid deterioration in forward visibility. The Board believes that the action of the crew might have been influenced by a visual illusory effect produced by a shallow layer of dense fog combined with the relative position of the sun."
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