Airplane Crash - Ketchikan, Alaska 04/05/1976
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Ketchikan, Alaska
Date | 04/05/1976 |
Time | 08:19 |
Location | Ketchikan, Alaska |
Operator | Alaska Airlines |
Flight # | 60 |
Route | Juneau - Ketchikan |
Type | Boeing B-727-81 |
Registration | N124AS |
Cn/In | 18821 |
Aboard | 50 |
Fatalities | 1 |
Ground | 0 |
Summary | The plane overran the runway after landing at excessive speed. The captain's faulty judgement in initiating a go-around after he was committed to a full stop landing following an excessively long and fast touchdown from an unstabilized approach. |
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