Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 20 DEC 1983 |
| Time: | 13:17 CST |
| Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 |
| Operator: | Ozark Air Lines |
| Registration: | N994Z |
| C/n / msn: | 47097/193 |
| First flight: | 1967 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 81 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 86 |
| Ground casualties: | Fatalities: 1 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | Repaired |
| Location: | Sioux Falls, SD (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Sioux City-Municipal Airport, IA (SUX/KSUX), United States of America |
| Sioux Falls Regional Airport (Jo Foss Field), SD (FSD/KFSD), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 650 |
The right wing struck a snow plough on runway 03. The wing separated and the plane swerved off the runway.
PROBABLE CAUSE: " Inadequate Control Tower Service by Air Traffic Control Personnel. Factors relating to the accident were weather conditions; snow, obscuration, low ceiling; and vehicles on the runway." Sources:
» NTSB/AAR-85/01/SUM
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Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Sioux City-Municipal Airport, IA to Sioux Falls Regional Airport (Jo Foss Field), SD as the crow flies is 133 km (83 miles).
Distance from Sioux City-Municipal Airport, IA to Sioux Falls Regional Airport (Jo Foss Field), SD as the crow flies is 133 km (83 miles).
