- Date
- September 6, 1971
- Place
- Peotone, IL · PEOTONE, IL
- Injuries
- 3 serious, 5 minor, 18 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N44992Douglas DC-3
- Status
- Completed · report August 17, 1972
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 164641
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4376 71/9/6 NR.PEOTONE,ILL DOUGLAS DC-3 CR- 0 0 2 COMMERCIAL ATP,FLIGHT INSTR., AGE TIME - 1438 N44992 PX- 0 3 21 OTHER 32, 4200 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-MINOR OT- 0 0 0 1000 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION PORT HURON,MICH KANSAS CITY,MO TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) WEATHER - TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT SIGN OFF WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, IN PERSON WEATHER FORECAST - WEATHER CONSIDERABLY WORSE THAN FORECAST SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE SCATTERED 3500 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS NONE VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR REMARKS- ACFT LEASED FOR FLT.HAD BEEN IN AND OUT OF CLOUDS AND ENCOUNTERED ONLY LT TURB PRIOR.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N44992
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-3
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
N44992Registration cancelled Mar 11, 2013 · Douglas DC3Airframe modelDouglas DC3Engine modelPratt & Whitney R-1830 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.