Boeing 720B N724US

12 February 1963 · Miami, Florida, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 12 February 1963 at about 13:50 local time, a Boeing 720B registered N724US, operated by Northwest Airlines, Inc., was involved in an accident during in flight near Miami, Florida, United States. 43 people were on board and 43 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 12 February 1963 at 13:50
Classification: Accident
Location: Miami, Florida, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 720B
Registration: N724US
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0006

People

43 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
43	43	0	0	0

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

BOTH WINGS, STAB FAILED.SEVERE UPDRAFTS AND LONGITUDINAL CONTROL DISPLACEMENT CAUSED LONGITUD UPSET

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 1-0006, 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 Boeing 720 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
6 Nov 1963	Boeing 720 N8708E	Boston, Massachusetts, United States no coordinates	Eastern Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-
12 Dec 1963	Boeing 720 N8711E	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States no coordinates	Eastern Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-
30 Aug 1962	Boeing 720 N8706E	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States no coordinates	Eastern Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-
23 Sep 1962	Boeing 720 N7209U	Albany, New York, United States no coordinates	United Air Lines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
26 Jan 1962	Boeing 720B N724US	Ft.lauderdale, Florida, United States no coordinates	Northwest Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
21 Sep 1962	Boeing 720B N8715E	Miami, Florida, United States no coordinates	Eastern Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-

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