Douglas DC-6A N37595

15 August 1965 · Boston Mass, Massachusetts, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 15 August 1965 at about 13:52 local time, a Douglas DC-6A registered N37595, operated by United Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Boston Mass, Massachusetts, United States. 3 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: 15 August 1965 at 13:52
Classification: Accident
Location: Boston Mass, Massachusetts, United States
Nearest airport: Logan Internatnl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-6A
Registration: N37595
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: United Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 1-0043

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	0	0	0	3

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

FATIGUE FAILURE L.NOSE GEAR SCISSOR TORQUE LINK P/N 8488A-46-1.

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 1-0043, 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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