| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | May 12, 1959 |
| Time: | 1613 |
| Location: | Chase, Maryland |
| Operator: | Capital Airlines |
| Flight #: | 75 |
| Route: | New York City - Atlanta |
| AC Type: | Vickers Viscount 745D |
| Registration: | N7463 |
| cn / ln: | 287 |
| Aboard: | 31 (passengers:27 crew:4) |
| Fatalities: | 31 (passengers:27 crew:4) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | Disintegrated in-flight due to severe turbulence after penetrating a thunderstorm. Icing. A farmhand observed a large chuck of ice fall from the plane seconds before the crash. A second plane crash involving Capital Airlines occurred at Charleston, WV on this same day. |
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