AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC. BOEING 707-331C,N788TW. JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, JAMAICA, NEW YORK DECEMBER 12, 1972

The report discusses the aircraft crash during and ILS approach in IFR conditions. The flight, operating between Baltimore, Maryland, and Jamaica, New York, had been conducting an autocouplled landing approach under Category II procedures. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was that the captain did not maintain a safe descent path by visual external reference during an instrument landing system approach.

• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  Office of Aviation Safety
  Washington, DC  United States  20594
• Publication Date: 1973-5-2

Media Info

• Pagination: 14 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation crashes; Airborne navigational aids; Approach; Automatic control; Civil aircraft; Crash injury research; Crash investigation; Crashes; Instrument flying; Instrument landing systems; Jet propelled aircraft; Passenger aircraft; Research; Transport aircraft
• Identifier Terms: Boeing 707 aircraft; U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
• Geographic Terms: New York (State)
• Old TRIS Terms: Autocoupled landing approach; Instrument landing; Ntsb
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00047314
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NTSB-AAR-73-11
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Sep 27 1973 12:00AM