- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | March 10, 1964 |
Time: | 0822 |
Location: | Boston, Massachutes |
Operator: | Slick Airways - Cargo |
Flight #: | 12 |
Route: | New York - Winsor Locks - Boston |
AC Type: | Douglas DC-4 |
Registration: | N384 |
cn / ln: | 18379 |
Aboard: | 3 (passengers:0 crew:3) |
Fatalities: | 3 (passengers:0 crew:3) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | While on approach, the cargo plane suddenly pitched down and crashed short of the runway. Loss of balancing forces on the horizontal surface of the empennage of the aircraft, due to ice accretion, causing the aircraft to pitch nose down at an altitude too low to effect recovery. |
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