Douglas DC-9 N9101

1 October 1966 · Nwemme, Oregon, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 1 October 1966 at about 19:10 local time, a Douglas DC-9 registered N9101, operated by West Coast Airlines, Inc., was involved in an accident during in flight near Nwemme, Oregon, United States. 18 people were on board and 18 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 1 October 1966 at 19:10
Classification: Accident
Location: Nwemme, Oregon, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-9
Registration: N9101
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: West Coast Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: IMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0015

People

18 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
18	18	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

RECOVERED 100266.DESCENT BELOW CLEARANCE LIMIT AND OBSTRUCTING TERRAIN FOR UNKNOWN REASON.

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 1-0015, 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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