Date: | Thursday 19 January 1967 |
Time: | 13:59 |
Type: | Vickers 745D Viscount |
Owner/operator: | United Airlines |
Registration: | N7431 |
MSN: | 129 |
Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 50 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Norfolk Municipal Airport, VA (ORF) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Norfolk Municipal Airport, VA (ORF/KORF) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:A snow tractor taxied into the path of a United Air Lines Viscount which was just landing. The Viscount collided with the snow plough, ripping open the airplane's belly and tearing off one of the wings.
PROBABLE CAUSES:
personnel - miscellaneous-personnel: driver of vehicle
personnel - airport supervisory personnel: other
miscellaneous acts,conditions - instructions-misinterpreted
FACTOR(S):
miscellaneous acts, conditions - overload failure
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | DIA67A0005 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 5 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB
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