Downeast Flight 46
Downeast Airlines Flight 46 was a scheduled airline service in the United States from Boston's Logan International Airport to Rockland, Maine operated by Downeast Airlines. On May 30, 1979 a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operating the flight crashed during a nonprecision approach to Rockland's Knox County Regional Airport. The cause of the accident was controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) after the failure of the flightcrew to stop the aircraft's descent below the minimum descent altitude for the nonprecision approach at Knox County airport. The investigation into the accident looked into the airline's corporate culture as a contributing factor to the crash; this was the first time an investigation took this approach to an air crash.
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Downeast Flight 46
Downeast Airlines Flight 46 was a scheduled airline service in the United States from Boston's Logan International Airport to Rockland, Maine operated by Downeast Airlines. On May 30, 1979 a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter operating the flight crashed during a nonprecision approach to Rockland's Knox County Regional Airport. The cause of the accident was controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) after the failure of the flightcrew to stop the aircraft's descent below the minimum descent altitude for the nonprecision approach at Knox County airport. The investigation into the accident looked into the airline's corporate culture as a contributing factor to the crash; this was the first time an investigation took this approach to an air crash.
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Downeast Airlines Flight 46 wa ...... this approach to an air crash.
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45.192.759
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739.668.291
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An Air Hokkaido DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300 similar to the incident aircraft.
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Descent below minimum descent altitude for nonprecision approach
date
1979-05-30
destination
Rockland, Maine, United States
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Downeast Airlines Flight 46
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operator
origin
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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near Rockland, Maine
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44.02 -69.06
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Downeast Airlines Flight 46 wa ...... this approach to an air crash.
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Downeast Flight 46
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