| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | March 05, 1967 |
| Time: | 2007 |
| Location: | Near Marseille, Ohio |
| Operator: | Lake Central Airlines |
| Flight #: | 527 |
| Route: | Colombus - Toledo |
| AC Type: | Convair CV-580 |
| Registration: | N73130 |
| cn / ln: | 023 |
| Aboard: | 38 (passengers:35 crew:3) |
| Fatalities: | 38 (passengers:35 crew:3) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The aircraft crashed following the separation in flight of all four blades of the right propeller. No. 2 blade penetrated and destroyed the structural integrity of the fuselage. Malfunction of the hydraulic pitch control mechanism. Uncontrollable overspeeding. Propeller separation in flight. Omission of the torque piston nitriding process during manufacture and failure of quality control to detect the omission. |
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