Vickers Viscount crash, Jan 29, 1963 (8 killed), Kansas C...
Vickers Viscount accident on January 29, 1963 near Kansas City Missouri, United States with 8 fatalities. Cause: The Civil Aeronautics Board found the...
- Date: January 29, 1963
- Aircraft: Vickers Viscount
- Location: Kansas City Missouri, United States
- Fatalities: 8
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The Civil Aeronautics Board found the probable cause was an undetected accretion of ice on the horizontal stabilizer, which together with airspeed and configuration caused a loss of pitch control.
Continental Air Lines Flight 290, a Vickers Viscount 812 on a scheduled service from Midland, Texas, crashed while landing at Kansas City Municipal Airport on 29 January 1963. All eight people aboard, three crew and five passengers, were killed. The Civil Aeronautics Board found that ice on the horizontal stabilizer caused a loss of pitch control.