Capital Airlines Flight 67
Vickers Viscount · Stall, loss of control
From Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) to Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 47 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Vickers Viscount
- Aircraft type
- Vickers VISCOUNT
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N7437
- Operator
- Capital Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 47
- Route
- From Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)To Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Fluids/misc hardware
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Capital Airlines Flight 67 was a domestic scheduled U.S. passenger flight operated by Capital Airlines which crashed on final approach to Freeland, Michigan, during a severe snowstorm on April 6, 1958, killing all 47 people on board. The flight was en route from Flint-Bishop Airport to the Freeland-Tri City Airport (now MBS International Airport) when it crashed. Flight 67 was the first of four fatal crashes in the space of two years involving Capital Airlines Vickers Viscounts; the others were Flight 300 (May 1958), Flight 75 (May 1959), and Flight 20 (January 1960).
Accident
Approach conditions towards Tri-City Airport, Freeland, Michigan were poor due to the weather; there was restricted visibility, and conditions were ripe for icing. The plane while descending below the 900 foot overcast suddenly pitched over and impacted the ground. The point of impact was 2,322 feet from the end of runway 5. The "entire wreckage was confined in an area almost equal to the length and span of the aircraft." Witnesses stated that aircraft rolled out of the base leg of the approach on to final approach and was level for from four to six seconds before it pitched over and crashed.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The probable cause of the crash was "an undetected accretion of ice on the horizontal stabilized which, in conjunction with a specific airspeed and aircraft configuration, caused a loss of pitch control."
A memorial to the victims was unveiled in a local cemetery between 2006 and 2007.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Capital Airlines Flight 67
- Article
- Capital Airlines Flight 67
- Revision
- 1374051711 · 2026-09-09 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q5035448
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Capital Airlines Flight 67" (page 9861908, revision 1374051711)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.