Date: | Sunday 17 July 1955 |
Time: | 06:24 |
Type: | Convair CV-340-32 |
Owner/operator: | Braniff International Airways |
Registration: | N3422 |
MSN: | 71 |
Year of manufacture: | 1953 |
Total airframe hrs: | 4956 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-CB16 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 22 / Occupants: 43 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Chicago-Midway Airport, IL (MDW) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Kansas City Downtown Municipal Airport, MO (MKC/KMKC) |
Destination airport: | Chicago-Midway Airport, IL (MDW/KMDW) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The Braniff Convair was on operating on the flight Dallas-Oklahoma City-Wichita-Kansas City-Chicago. Departure time a Kansas City was 04:35 as the aircraft started VFR for Chicago. IFR was requested at 05:19. At 05:56 the crew received a weather forecast: thin (1000 feet) obscuration; visibility 1/2 mile. The crew then reported over Napierville at 06:18 and were radar vectored to the runway 13R outer marker for an ILS approach. On final approach the Convair descended too low and collided with a commercial sign. The aircraft then crashed through the airport boundary fence in flames and came to rest inverted.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Momentary disorientation caused by the loss of visual reference during the final visual phase of the approach resulting in an increased rate of descent an altitude too low to effect recovery."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Report number: | final report |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest Circular 50-AN/45 (137-142)
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
25 January 1970 |
XC-DOK |
Comisión Federal de Electricidad - CFE |
19 |
ca 6 km E of Poza Rica-Tajin Airport (PAZ) |
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w/o |
Location
Images:
photo (c) Pat Bukiri; Chicago-Midway Airport, IL (MDW); 17 July 1955
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