ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 14046
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| Date: | Friday 12 September 1975 |
| Time: | 10:58 |
| Type: |  Rockwell Aero Commander 690A |
| Owner/operator: | Campbell-Ewald Advertising Company |
| Registration: | N847CE |
| MSN: | 11223 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Nemacolin, PA -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Nemaculin Airstrip, PA | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Campbell-Ewald Advertising Company Rockwell Commander 690A, N847CE, was operated as a corporate executive flight from Pontiac, Michigan, to Nemacolin, Pennsylvania, with a stop at Pittsburgh.
About 10:58, after the flight had departed Pittsburgh and was en route to Nemacolin, radar contact and radio communications
were lost, which was not unusual or unexpected, when the flight was about 5 nmi northeast of the Nemacolin Airport. The flight
was operating on an instrument flight rules flight plan and in instrument meteorological conditions.
On September 13, the wreckage was located about 5 nmi from the Nemacolin Airport in mountainous terrain at an elevation of about 2,800 feet. the aircraft was destroyed.
The two crewmembers and the two passengers were killed.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilot's attempt to execute a VFR approach in meteorological conditions which precluded visual flight to an airport which did not have an FAA-approved instrument approach procedure.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
AVL 108
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 12-Feb-2012 01:25 | Gwydd | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 30-Jul-2013 01:23 | wf | Updated [Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-Mar-2020 12:15 | harro | Updated [Operator, Nature, Destination airport, Narrative, Accident report, ] |
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