Lockheed L-188 N5509

17 April 1966 · Charlotte Nc, North Carolina, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 17 April 1966 at about 18:45 local time, a Lockheed L-188 registered N5509, operated by Eastern Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an incident during in flight near Charlotte Nc, North Carolina, United States. 90 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 17 April 1966 at 18:45
Classification: Incident
Location: Charlotte Nc, North Carolina, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Lockheed L-188
Registration: N5509
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: In Flight
Aircraft damage: Minor
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0016

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
90	0	0	0	90

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

LOOSE ELECTRICAL CONNECTION ON NO.39 RADIANT HEAT PANEL.

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 4-0016, 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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