An Allegheny Airlines, Inc., DC-9, N988VJ, and a Forth Corporation, Piper PA-28, N7374J, collided in flight approximately 4 miles northwest of Fairland, Indiana, September 9, 1969. All 83 occupants, 78 passengers and four crewmembers, aboard the DC-9 and the pilot of the PA-28 were fatally injured. Both aircraft were destroyed by the collision and ground impact. The Board determines the probable cause of this accident to be the deficiencies in the collision avoidance capability of the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system of the Federal Aviation Administration in a terminal area wherein there was mixed Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) and Visual Flight Rules (VFR) traffic. The deficiencies included the inadequacy of the see-and-avoid concept under the circumstances of this case; the technical limitations of radar in detecting all aircraft; and the absence of Federal Aviation Regulations which would provide a system of adequate separation of mixed VFR and IFR traffic in terminal areas. (Author)


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    Title :

    Aircraft Accident Report. Allegheny Airlines, Inc., Dc-9, N988VJ AND A Forth Corporation, Piper Pa-28, N7374J Near Fairland, Indiana, September 9, 1969


    Publication date :

    1970


    Size :

    48 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English