ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 233848
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Date: | Friday 11 October 1974 |
Time: | 20:23 |
Type: | Convair F-106A Delta Dart |
Owner/operator: | New Jersey Air National Guard USAF |
Registration: | 59-0044 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Minor |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Saxis, Virginia -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Atlantic City NAFEC, New Jersey |
Destination airport: | Atlantic City NAFEC, NJ |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:A New Jersey Air National Guard Convair F-106A Delta Dart (59-0044) and a Piper PA-24-250 Comanche (N6876P) collided in midair at 8500 feet near Saxis, Virginia. The Piper aircraft crashed into a marshland near Saxis, and the F-106 returned to the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center at Atlantic City, New Jersey, without further difficulty. The Piper aircraft was destroyed in the crash, and its four occupants were killed.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the interceptor pilot to see and avoid a civil aircraft during a high-speed, low-altitude, intercept training flight conducted in an area which included major north-south airways.
Also contributing to this accident was the system which permitted an incompatible mix of traffic in controlled airspace which resulted in the probability of an inadvertent radar lock-on to a civil aircraft.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB-AAR-75-6
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Mar-2020 19:01 |
harro |
Updated [Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Accident report, ] |
25-Jun-2023 21:42 |
Nepa |
Updated [[Total occupants, Departure airport, Destination airport, Accident report, ]] |
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