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.


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    Title :

    Aircraft Accident Report. Trans World Airlines, Inc. Boeing 707-331C,N788TW. John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, New York December 12, 1972


    Publication date :

    1973


    Size :

    16 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English