Lockheed L1049C N6218C

4 December 1965 · Carmel Ny, New York, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 4 December 1965 at about 16:18 local time, a Lockheed L1049C registered N6218C, operated by Eastern Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an accident during in flight near Carmel Ny, New York, United States. 54 people were on board and 4 died, 34 were seriously injured, 15 had minor injuries. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 4 December 1965 at 16:18
Classification: Accident
Location: Carmel Ny, New York, United States
Nearest airport: La Guardia
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Lockheed L1049C
Registration: N6218C
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0033

People

4 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
54	4	34	15	1

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

PLT MISJUDGED ALT.SEPARATION DUE OPTICAL ILLUSION CREATED BY UP-SLOPE EFFECT OF CLOUD TOPS.

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 1-0033, 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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