Douglas DC-6B N90765

7 March 1962 · Buffalo, New York, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 7 March 1962 at about 22:14 local time, a Douglas DC-6B registered N90765, operated by American Airlines, Inc., was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Buffalo, New York, United States. 56 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: 7 March 1962 at 22:14
Classification: Accident
Location: Buffalo, New York, United States
Nearest airport: Grtr Buffalo Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-6B
Registration: N90765
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: American Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: St.louis, Mo → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0014

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
56	0	0	0	56

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

R MLG OLEO STRUT FAILED.

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 1-0014, 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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