- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | May 30, 1984 |
Time: | 0145 |
Location: | Chalkhill, Pennsylvania |
Operator: | Zantop International Airlines |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Baltimore - Detroit |
AC Type: | Lockheed L-188AF Electra |
Registration: | N5523 |
cn / ln: | 1034 |
Aboard: | 4 (passengers:1 crew:3) |
Fatalities: | 4 (passengers:1 crew:3) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The cargo aircraft's entry into an unusual attitude and the inability of the flight crew to analyze the flight condition before there was a complete loss of control. Although the precise reason for the loss of control was not identified, an undetermined failure of a component in the No.2 vertical gyro system, perhaps involving the amplifier and associated circuitry, probably contributed to the cause of the accident by incorrectly processing data to the co-pilot's approach horizon. The inflight structural failure of the aircraft was due to overload. |
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