Fairchild F-27 N2703

17 January 1963 · Salt Lake City, Utah, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 17 January 1963 at about 15:53 local time, a Fairchild F-27 registered N2703, operated by West Coast Airlines, Inc., was involved in an accident during in flight near Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. 3 people were on board and 3 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 17 January 1963 at 15:53
Classification: Accident
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Fairchild F-27
Registration: N2703
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: West Coast Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0005

People

3 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	3	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

CREWS LACK OF VIGILANCE, FOR UNDETERMINED REASON, IN NOT CHECKING DESCENT BEFORE STRIKING WATER.

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 1-0005, 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.

Also in

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Other Fairchild F-27 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
9 Jul 1963	Fairchild F-27 N5096A	Kailua, Hawaii, United States no coordinates	Aloha Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
24 Aug 1963	Fairchild F-27 N2707	Calgary, Canada no coordinates	West Coast Airlines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
1 Jan 1962	Fairchild F-27 N2703R	Charlotte, North Carolina, United States no coordinates	Piedmont Aviation, Inc.	No injuries	-
25 Feb 1962	Fairchild F-27 N4302F	Waterloo, Iowa, United States no coordinates	Ozark Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-
2 Mar 1964	Fairchild F-27 N2704	Portland Oregon, Oregon, United States no coordinates	West Coast Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
7 May 1964	Fairchild F-27 N2770R	San Ramon Calif, California, United States no coordinates	Pacific Air Lines, Inc.	Fatal	44

All 20 records for this type

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