- Date
- January 28, 1968
- Place
- Hilo, HI · HILO, HI
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor, 43 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5510KConvair 640
- Status
- Completed · report January 24, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 112130
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0035 68/1/28 NR.HILO,HAWAII CONVAIR 640 CR- 0 0 3 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1415 N5510K PX- 0 1 41 47, 19350 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 875 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. OPERATOR - HAWAIIAN AIRLINES,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: PASSENGER MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEAT BELT NOT FASTENED WEATHER - TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY WEATHER BUREAU PERSONEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED 10000 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE ZERO HAIL OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS NONE VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR REMARKS- SEAT BELT SIGN ON. PAX INADVERTENTLY RELEASED SEAT BELT DURING TURB, WAS THROWN FROM SEAT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5510K
- Reported as
- Convair 640
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo prop
- Damage
- No damage
N5510KRegistration cancelled Mar 27, 2002 · Convair 640-340DAirframe modelConvair 640-340DEngine modelRolls-Royce DART-542 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.