Douglas DC-10 EC-CBN

17 December 1973 · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · Serious injuries

Summary

On 17 December 1973 at about 15:43 local time, a Douglas DC-10 registered EC-CBN, operated by Iberia, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Boston, Massachusetts, United States. 167 people were on board and 3 were seriously injured, 13 had minor injuries. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 17 December 1973 at 15:43
Classification: Accident
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Nearest airport: Logan Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-10
Registration: EC-CBN
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 3
Operator: Iberia
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Madrid, Spain → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: A-0004

People

3 people were seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
167	0	3	13	151

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

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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 A-0004, 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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