Date: | Tuesday 27 November 1951 |
Time: | 11:49 |
Type: | Douglas DC-3-201C |
Owner/operator: | Eastern Air Lines |
Registration: | N25646 |
MSN: | 2234 |
Year of manufacture: | 1940 |
Engine model: | Wright R-1820-202A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 20 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Minor, repaired |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Ocala, FL -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Gainesville-J R Alison Municipal Airport, FL (GNV/KGNV) |
Destination airport: | Ocala-Taylor Field, FL (OCF/KOCF) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Eastern Flight 167 took off from Gainsville at 11:26 on a VFR flight plan to Ocala. At 11:45 a Civil Air Patrol Piper L-4J (45-5151, cn 13891) took off from
Ocala-Taylor Field runway 21. The Piper was climbing after a left turn when it collided with the DC-3 at 700-800 feet. The DC-3's no. 1 prop made several span-wise cuts into the left wing of the Piper. Control was lost and the Piper crashed into a heavily wooded area, killing the pilot. The DC-3 circled the airport for a few minutes and landed at 12:10.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of the pilots of both aircraft to observe the other in time to take the necessary evasive action."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Report number: | final report |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
CAB File No. 1-0102
ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest, Circular 38-AN/33 (25-27)
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photo (c) Aviation Safety Network
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