Investigators said today that the plane was built in 1967. Carmody also said that the plane, which was used primarily in Europe and had carried cargo its entire career
I know the NTSB are not 'anoraks', but the foregoing is wildly inaccurate.
It was built in 1953 as a Convair 440 and
converted to a 580 in 1967, so presumably that's what the CofA shows. Before and after conversion it was a passenger-carrier for United, Lake Central and Allegheny. Bought by DHL and placed on the Belgian register in 1987.
Not the journo getting it wrong this time.