- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | July 15, 1969 |
Time: | 0657 |
Location: | New York City, New York |
Operator: | New York Airways |
Flight #: | 901 |
Route: | New York - Newark |
AC Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 |
Registration: | N558MA |
cn / ln: | 175 |
Aboard: | 14 (passengers:11 crew:3) |
Fatalities: | 3 (passengers:1 crew:2) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The plane flew into wake turbulence and crashed. The pilot was 12 minutes behind schedule and made an intersection takeoff. The tower warned him of wake turbulence from a recently departing jet. |
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