Lockheed L188A N1968R

26 September 1972 · Amchitka Is, Alaska, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 26 September 1972 at about 18:38 local time, a Lockheed L188A registered N1968R, operated by Reeve Aleutian Airways, Inc., was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Amchitka Is, Alaska, United States. 25 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: 26 September 1972 at 18:38
Classification: Accident
Location: Amchitka Is, Alaska, United States
Nearest airport: Amchitka
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Lockheed L188A
Registration: N1968R
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Reeve Aleutian Airways, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Shemya, Alas → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: IMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0043

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
25	0	0	0	25

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.

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 1-0043, 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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