Fairchild F-27 N2705J

29 December 1966 · Bridgeport Conn, Connecticut, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 29 December 1966 at about 08:55 local time, a Fairchild F-27 registered N2705J, operated by U.s. Air, was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near Bridgeport Conn, Connecticut, United States. 7 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 29 December 1966 at 08:55
Classification: Incident
Location: Bridgeport Conn, Connecticut, United States
Nearest airport: Bridgeport Muni
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Fairchild F-27
Registration: N2705J
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: U.s. Air
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0049

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
7	0	0	0	7

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

FALSE FIRE WARNING INDICATION ON RT ENGINE.

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 4-0049, 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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