Fairchild FH-227 N814M

5 March 1972 · Islip, New York, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 5 March 1972 at about 19:30 local time, a Fairchild FH-227 registered N814M, operated by Mohawk Airlines, Inc., was involved in an accident during static near Islip, New York, United States. 29 people were on board. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 5 March 1972 at 19:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Islip, New York, United States
Nearest airport: MacArthur Arpt
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Fairchild FH-227
Registration: N814M
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Mohawk Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Static
Route: Buffalo, Ny → S
Aircraft damage: None
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0009

People

Injuries not recorded.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
29	0	0	0	29

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

HIT BY R PROP RUNNING DOWN.DARK, OVRCAST NIGHT.

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 1-0009, 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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Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
15 Sep 1970	Fairchild FH-227 N7810M	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States no coordinates	Mohawk Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-
11 Jan 1969	Fairchild FH-227 N7710	Lynchburg, Virginia, United States no coordinates	Piedmont Aviation, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
2 Feb 1969	Fairchild FH-227 N4232	St.louis, Missouri, United States no coordinates	Ozark Air Lines, Inc.	Fatal	-
9 May 1969	Fairchild FH-227 N708U	Ashland, Kentucky, United States no coordinates	Piedmont Aviation, Inc.	No injuries	-
22 Jan 1969	Fairchild FH-227 N4224	Springfield, Illinois, United States no coordinates	Ozark Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-
11 Dec 1969	Fairchild FH-227 N378NE	Windsor Lock, Connecticut, United States no coordinates	Northeast Airlines, Inc.	No injuries	-

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