Date: | Friday 29 November 1963 |
Time: | 11:10 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Purdue University |
Registration: | N386T |
MSN: | 20411 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Total airframe hrs: | 12241 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Morgantown, WV -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Lafayette-Purdue University Airport, IN (LAF/KLAF) |
Destination airport: | Morgantown Airport, WV (MGW/KMGW) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The DC-3 departed Lafayette, IN at 08:36 for a ferry flight to Morgantown. The plane was on a VOR instrument approach to land when it struck trees and crashed on a wooded hillside.
Weather at 11:18 EST was Ceiling 600 feet broken, 800 feet overcast, visibility 2 miles, light rain and fog; wind north, 12 knots with gusts to 20 knots, altitude setting 29.42in.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's execution of an instrument approach in an aircraft not equipped with navigational instrumentation appropriate to the ground facilities being used."
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:
CAB Accident Report File No. 1-0017
ICAO Accident Digest No.15 - Volume II, Circular 78-AN/66 (10-16)
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