Allegheny Airlines, Inc., Allison Prop Jet Convair 340/440, N5832, operating as Allegheny Flight 485, crashed during an approach to the Tweed-New Haven Airport, at 0949 e.d.t., on June 7, 1971. Twenty-eight passengers and two crewmembers were fatally injured. Two passengers and the first officer survived. The airplane was destroyed. The flight, operating between Washington, D.C., and Newport News, Virginis, with stops at Groton and New Haven, Connecticut, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was making a nonprecision instrument approach and struck cottages at an altitude of 29 feet m.s.l., 4,890 feet from the threshold and 510 feet to the right of the extended center line of Runway 2. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the captain's intentional descent below the precribed minimum descent altitude under adverse weather conditions, without adequate forward visibility or the crew's sighting of runway environment. (Author)


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    Title :

    Aircraft Accident Report, Allegheny Airlines, Inc. Allison Prop Jet Convair 340/440, N5832, New Haven, Connecticut


    Publication date :

    1972


    Size :

    72 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English