Airplane Crash - Chalkhill, Pennsylvania 05/30/1984
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Chalkhill, Pennsylvania
| Date | 05/30/1984 |
| Time | 01:45 |
| Location | Chalkhill, Pennsylvania |
| Operator | Zantop International Airlines |
| Route | Baltimore - Detroit |
| Type | Lockheed L-188AF Electra |
| Registration | N5523 |
| Cn/In | 1034 |
| Aboard | 4 |
| Fatalities | 4 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | The cargo aircraft's entry into an unusual attitude and the inability of the flight crew to analyze the flight condition before there was a complete loss of control. Although the precise reason for the loss of control was not identified, an undetermined failure of a component in the No.2 vertical gyro system, perhaps involving the amplifier and associated circuitry, probably contributed to the cause of the accident by incorrectly processing data to the co-pilot's approach horizon. The inflight structural failure of the aircraft was due to overload. |
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