barit1
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: flyover country USA
Age: 66
Posts: 2,142
There were four within six months. All had high sink rate, unarrested descent.
UA Lake Michigan 8/65
AA CVG 11/65
UA SLC 11/65
All Nippon - Tokyo Bay 2/66
Additionally a
PA ship crashed 11/66 in E. Germany, suspected similar circumstances
Last edited by barit1 : 7th July 2008 at 21:50.
The UAL crash into Lake Michigan was miles (20+?) from the airport. Indication of misread altimeter, by 10,000, caused the accident. During descent accepted a descent to 6,000. Unfortunately a/c was already at 2,000, well below it's cleared altitude.
AA CVG was visual approach and they lost sight of the airport. Crashed 4 miles from the runway and is more consistent with CFIT as opposed to unstabilized final approach segment.
All Nippon Tokyo impacted 12 kms from the airport. CFIT as opposed to unstabilized final approach segment.
Pan Am East Germany crash - crashed over military training area on initial approach segment. Some suspected accidental shoot down by East Germany/Russian military. Western crash investigators weren't allowed on site. Eventually some of the parts were unexpectedly driven to the West Berlin border and handed over. (Pan Am brat in West Berlin at the time). Final cause was unknown, but it wasn't unstabilized final approach segment crash.
grumpyoldgeek - in my opinion (IMO), except for the UA SLC crash, these accidents don't qualify.
You can search
www.airdisaster.com, or other crash investigative websites, and enter B-727 in the databases. There might be others that IMO would qualify. I'd also check out B-707, DC-8, DC-9 and B-737 crashes in the 1960-1970's. They might have had some unstabilized final approach segment crashes that are, over time, getting lumped together.