AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT: CAMPBELL-EWALD ADVERTISING COMPANY, ROCKWELL TURBO COMMANDER 690A, N847CE, NEMACOLIN, PENNSYLVANIA, SEPTEMBER 12, 1975
On September 12, 1975, a Campbell-Ewald Advertising Company Rockwell Turbo Commander 690A, N847CE, was operated as a corporate executive flight from Pontiac, Michigan, to Nemacolin, Pennsylvania, with a stop at Pittsburgh. About 1058 e.d.t. on September 12, after the flight had departed Pittsburgh and was en route to Nemacolin, radar contact and radio communications were lost; the flight was about 5 nmi northeast of the Nemacolin Airport. The flight was operating on an instrument flight rules flight plan and in instrument meteorological conditions. On September 13, the wreckage was located about 5 nmi from the Nemacolin Airport in mountainous terrain at an elevation of about 2,800 feet. The two crewmembers and the two passengers were killed; the aircraft was destroyed. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilot's attempt to execute a VFR approach in meteorological conditions which precluded visual flight to an airport which did not have an FAA-approved instrument approach procedure.
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Supplemental Notes:
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Corporate Authors:
National Transportation Safety Board
490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
Washington, DC United States 20594D.C. Bureau of Aviation Safety.
, - Publication Date: 1976-2-25
Media Info
- Pagination: 25 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air pilots; Air transportation crashes; Airborne navigational aids; Casualties; Crash investigation; Crash landing; Instrument flying; Licenses; Loss and damage; Passenger aircraft
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00133253
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: NTSB-AAR-76-7
- Files: NTIS
- Created Date: Jun 23 1976 12:00AM