Airplane Crash - Near Marseille, Ohio 03/05/1967
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Near Marseille, Ohio
| Date | 03/05/1967 |
| Time | 20:07 |
| Location | Near Marseille, Ohio |
| Operator | Lake Central Airlines |
| Flight # | 527 |
| Route | Colombus - Toledo |
| Type | Convair CV-380 |
| Registration | N73130 |
| Cn/In | 023 |
| Aboard | 38 |
| Fatalities | 38 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | The aircraft crashed following the separation in flight of all four blades of the right propeller. No. 2 blade penetrated and destroyed the structural integrity of the fuselage. Malfunction of the hydraulipitch control mechanism. Uncontrollable overspeeding. Propeller separation in flight. Omission of the torque piston nitriding process during manufacture and failure of quality control to detect the omission. |
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