Vickers 810 N242V

29 January 1963 · Kansas City, Missouri, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 29 January 1963 at about 22:44 local time, a Vickers 810 registered N242V, operated by Continental Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Kansas City, Missouri, United States. 8 people were on board and 8 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 29 January 1963 at 22:44
Classification: Accident
Location: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Nearest airport: Kansas City Muni
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Vickers 810
Registration: N242V
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Continental Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: IMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0002

People

8 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
8	8	0	0	0

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

UNDETECTED ICE ON HORIZ STAB IN CONJUNCTION WITHSPECIFIC A/S AND CONFIG CAUSED LOSS OF PITCH CNTL

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 1-0002, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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