The report discusses the aircraft crash during and ILS approach in IFR conditions. The flight, operating between Baltimore, Maryland, and Jamaica, New York, had been conducting an autocouplled landing approach under Category II procedures. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was that the captain did not maintain a safe descent path by visual external reference during an instrument landing system approach.
Aircraft Accident Report. Trans World Airlines, Inc. Boeing 707-331C,N788TW. John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, New York December 12, 1972
1973
16 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Aviation accidents , Accident investigations , Collision research , Jet aircraft , Transport aircraft , Instrument landing , Approach , Instrument flight , Automatic control , Commercial aircraft , Passenger aircraft , Aircraft collisions , New York , Boeing 707 aircraft , Autocoupled landing approach