- 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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