AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT REPORT. DELTA AIR LINES, INC., MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-9-14, N3305L, GREATER SOUTHWEST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, MAY 30, 1972

The report describes a crash landing in which three Delta pilots and a Federal Aviation Administration air carrier operations inspector, the only occupants, were killed. The aircraft was destroyed by impact and fire. The landing approach was conducted following a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 which made a touch and go landing ahead of the DC-9. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was an encounter with a trailing vortex generated by a preceding heavy jet which resulted in an involuntary loss of control of the airplane during the final approach.

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• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  Office of Aviation Safety
  Washington, DC  United States  20594
• Publication Date: 1973-3-13

Media Info

• Pagination: 40 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation crashes; Aircraft; Approach; Civil aircraft; Crash investigation; Crash landing; Fatalities; Fires; Passenger aircraft; Turbulence; Vortices
• Identifier Terms: McDonnell Douglas DC-9; U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
• Old TRIS Terms: Aircraft fires; Ntsb
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00047866
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: NTSB-AAR-73-3 Acc Rpt
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Oct 18 1973 12:00AM