Plane Crash List

Piper PA-42-720 N900MP

11 May 1988 · Chicago, Illinois, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 11 May 1988 at about 20:18 local time, a Piper PA-42-720 registered N900MP was involved in an incident near Chicago, Illinois, United States. 274 people were on board and nobody was injured. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date
at 20:18
Classification
Incident
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nearest airport
Chicago O'hare Intl (ORD)
Coordinates
41.8705, -87.6493
Aircraft
Piper PA-42-720
Registration
N900MP
Category
Airplane
Engines
2
Operator
Not recorded
Operating rule
Part 91: General Aviation
Purpose of flight
Business
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Route
Nashville → Chicago
Aircraft damage
Not recorded
Weather
VMC
Light
Day
NTSB number
MIA88IA168

People

Nobody was injured.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured
274 0 0 0 274

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

CONDOR FLT 610 (MCDONNELL DOUGLAS DC-10, GERMAN REGISTRATION: DADSO) WAS APRX 2 HRS LATE AS THE FLT CREW MEMBERS WERE PREPARING TO TAKEOFF. SUBSEQUENTLY, FLT 610 WAS CLRD FOR TAKEOFF WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO CROSS THE 5 DME (ON THE STANDARD INSTRUMENT DEPARTURE/SID) AT OR ABOVE 3000 FT. THE TAKEOFF CLNC WAS THEN CANCELED, BUT WAS REISSUED ABOUT 1 MIN LATER WITH THE SAME RESTRICTIONS. AT ABT THAT TIME, THE FLT WAS EXACTLY 2 HRS OVERDUE & THE COMPUTER DROPPED THE FLT PLAN DATATAG & BLOCK (AS PROGRAMMED TO HANDLE OVERDUE/UNUSED FLT PLANS). AFTER TAKEOFF, FLT 610 CONTACTED DEPARTURE CTL. THE CTLR NOTED ONLY A PRIMARY TRANSPONDER TARGET & OBSERVED NO ALT DATA. MEANWHILE, PIPER PA-42, N900MP, WAS ON AN IFR ARRIVAL FOR A VISUAL APCH TO PAL-WAUKEE ARPT AT 2800 FT. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE TWO ACFT CONVERGED & PASSED WITH ABOUT 2 MI (HORIZONTAL) & 200 FT (VERTICAL) SEPN. INTERVIEWS WITH THE CTLRS REVEALED THEY HAD INTENDED FLT 610 TO CLIMB TO 5000 FT AS PROVIDED BY THE SID. THE ERROR WAS NOT NOTED (WITH THE DATA TAG DROPPED FROM THE COMPUTER).

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

Aircraft involved

Aircraft Registration Operator Damage
Piper PA-42-720 PA-42-720 N900MP - -
McDonnell Douglas DC-10 DC-10 DADSO - -

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