- Comair Flight 3272
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Comair Flight 3272 Accident summary Date January 9, 1997 Type Atmospheric icing
leading to loss of controlSite Monroe, Michigan, USA Passengers 26 Crew 3 Fatalities 29 (all) Survivors 0 Aircraft type Embraer 120 RT Brasilia Operator Comair (as Delta Connection) Tail number N265CA Comair Flight 3272 was a Comair flight departing on January 9, 1997, from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport for the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. While on approach for landing, the aircraft, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, crashed nose-down 18 miles short of the airport. All aboard, twenty-six passengers and three crew members, died as a result of the accident.
The Comair headquarters learned about the incident from a call from the Comair office in Detroit.[1]
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Aftermath
The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause was inadequate standards for icing operations while in flight, specifically the failure of the Federal Aviation Administration to establish adequate minimum airspeeds for icing conditions, leading to a loss of control when the airplane accumulated a thin, rough accretion of ice on its lifting surfaces.
A contributing factor was the decision of the crew to operate in icing conditions while near the lower end of the flight envelope while the flaps were retracted. Comair had not previously established unambiguous minimum airspeed values for flap configurations and for flight in icing conditions.
See also
- Lists of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners
- Air safety
References
- ^ "In crisis, Comair stayed on course." The Cincinnati Enquirer. Sunday January 19, 1997. Retrieved on October 21, 2009.
External links
- Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network
- NTSB record
- Strangers united in death - Cincinnati Enquirer (Listing of passengers on the flights)
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