- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: November 12, 1995
Time: 0055
Location: East Granby, Connecticut
Operator: American Airlines
Flight #: 1572
Route: Chicago - East Granby
AC Type: McDonnell Douglas MD-83
Registration: N566AA
cn / ln: 49348/1374
Aboard: 78   (passengers:73  crew:5)
Fatalities: 0   (passengers:0  crew:0)
Ground: 0
Summary: While performing a non-precision approach in poor weather to runway 15 at Bradley International Airport, the plane struck the tops of trees and landed short of the runway. The airplane also impacted a instrument landing system antenna, bounced onto the runway, and landed safely. The flight crew's failure to maintain the required minimum descent altitude until the required visual references identifiable with the runway were in sight. Contributing factors were the failure of the BDL approach controller to furnish the flight crew with a current altimeter setting, and the flight crew's failure to ask for a more current setting.
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