ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334492
| Date: | Sunday 21 April 1957 |
| Time: | 13:44 |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3C |
| Owner/operator: | Frontier Airlines (FL) |
| Registration: | N65276 |
| MSN: | 19202 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 26844 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-S1C3-G |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 26 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 64 km N of Phoenix, AZ -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Prescott Airport, AZ (PRC/KPRC) |
| Phoenix-Sky Harbor International Airport, AZ (PHX/KPHX) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Frontier flight 7 was a regular service between Denver, CO and Phoenix, AZ with several intermediate stops. The flight departed Prescott, Arizona at 13:21 for the final leg. Cruising altitude was 6500 feet. En route the airplane descended due to decreasing visibility. At an altitude of about 4600 feet the left wing impacted the side of a mountain ridge. The portion of the left wing and the aileron torn off was from station 286.4 outboard to the tip.
A safe landing was made at Phoenix at 14:05.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the attempt by the pilot to fly over mountainous terrain by visual reference to the ground in weather conditions which severely restricted forward visibility and necessitated a descent to a dangerously low altitude."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB Report
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 21 December 1967 | N65276 | Frontier Airlines (FL) | 2 | Denver-Stapleton International Airport, CO (DEN) | |
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