- Date
- September 14, 1964
- Place
- Pacific Ocean (Pacific Ocean) · PACIFIC OCEAN, PO
- Injuries
- 23 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N109RDDouglas DC8F
- Status
- Completed · report June 7, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 180554
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4-0018 64/9/14 PACIFIC OCEAN DOUGLAS DC8F CR- 0 0 9 MIL CONTRACT PASSG INTL AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1052 N109RD PX- 0 0 14 UNK/NR, 15400 TOTAL DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 HOURS, 85 IN TYPE, UNK/NR INSTRUMENT RATED. CLASSIFIED AS INCIDENT OPERATOR - RIDDLE AIRLINES,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE UNCONTROLLED ALTITUDE DEVIATIONS IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PITCH CONTROL PROBLEM ADVERSE/UNFAVORABLE WEATHER
Aircraft
- Registration
- N109RD
- Reported as
- Douglas DC8F
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo fan
- Damage
- No damage
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