Aviation Accident Report: Collision with Trees and Crash Short of the Runway Corporate Airlines, Flight 5966 Contributor(s): National Transportation Safety Board (Author) |
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ISBN: 1494818426 ISBN-13: 9781494818425 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2014 |
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BISAC Categories: - Transportation |
Physical Information: 0.23" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.61 lbs) 112 pages |
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Publisher Description: On October 19, 2004, about 1937 central daylight time, Corporate Airlines (doingbusiness as American Connection) flight 5966, a BAE Systems BAE-J3201, N875JX, struck trees on final approach and crashed short of runway 36 at the Kirksville RegionalAirport (IRK), Kirksville, Missouri. The flight was operating under the provisions of14Code of Federal Regulations Part 121 as a scheduled passenger flight from Lambert-St.Louis International Airport, in St. Louis, Missouri, to IRK. The captain, first officer, and11 of the 13 passengers were fatally injured, and 2 passengers received serious injuries.The airplane was destroyed by impact and a postimpact fire. Night instrumentmeteorological conditions (IMC) prevailed at the time of the accident, and the flightoperated on an instrument flight rules flight plan |