AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT - OVERSEAS NATIONAL AIRWAYS, INC. MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-8-63, N863F, BANGOR, MAINE, JUNE 20, 1973

Overseas National Airways Flight 4655, a DC-8-63 in route from Tampa, Florida, to Geneva, Switzerland, via Bangor, Maine, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, was involved in a takeoff accident at the Bangor International Airport, Bangor, Maine, on June 20, 1973. In the emergency evacuation that followed, 34 of the 251 passengers on board were injured -- 3 of them seriously. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the undetected deflation of a right main landing gear tire as the aircraft was taxiing for takeoff.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20594
• Publication Date: 1974-2-7

Media Info

• Pagination: 13 p.

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00054511
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NTSB-AAR-74-1
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Jun 18 1974 12:00AM