Convair 580 N73155

14 December 1966 · Salt Lake City Ut, Utah, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 14 December 1966 at about 19:30 local time, a Convair 580 registered N73155, operated by Frontier Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during the taxi phase of flight near Salt Lake City Ut, Utah, United States. 3 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 14 December 1966 at 19:30
Classification: Incident
Location: Salt Lake City Ut, Utah, United States
Nearest airport: Salt Lake Muni 1
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Convair 580
Registration: N73155
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Frontier Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Taxi
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 4-0047

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	0	0	0	3

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

DURING PARKING IN CONFINED AREA RT WNG-TIP OF N73155 STRUCK NOSE RADOME OF PARKED DC6- UAL N6282.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

Where

Approximate

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40.7608, -111.8911
Approximate. The NTSB did not record coordinates, so this marker sits at the centre of Salt Lake City Ut, Utah, United States, not at the accident site. How this is worked out.

Source

NTSB record 4-0047, 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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Other Convair 580 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
8 Sep 1967	Convair 580 N73145	Denver, Colorado, United States approximate position	Frontier Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
27 Mar 1967	Convair 580 N5814	Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States approximate position	U.s. Air	No injuries	-
24 Jan 1967	Convair 580 N400J	Newark, New Jersey, United States approximate position	Johnson ANO JO	No injuries	-
12 Nov 1968	Convair 580 N73135	Santa Barbara, California, United States approximate position	TEX Johnston I	No injuries	-
23 Jul 1968	Convair 580 N73121	Pawnee City, Nebraska, United States approximate position	Frontier Airlines, Inc.	Minor injuries	-
4 Aug 1968	Convair 580 N4634S	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States approximate position	North Central Airlines, Inc.	Fatal	3

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