Western Airlines Flight 470

Western Airlines Flight 470

Aircraft similar to the one involved.
Accident
Date	March 31, 1975 (1975-03-31)
Summary	Pilot error during final approach
Site	Casper–Natrona County International Airport,Wyoming, United States
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 737-247
Operator	Western Airlines
Registration	N4527W
Flight origin	Stapleton International Airport, Colorado, United States
Destination	Natrona County International Airport, Wyoming, United States
Occupants	99
Passengers	93
Crew	6
Fatalities	0
Injuries	4
Survivors	99

Western Airlines Flight 470 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight in the United States from Colorado, stopping at Casper, Wyoming and finally arriving, operated by a Boeing 737 jet. On March 31, 1975, the Boeing 737

Aircraft

The aircraft was a Boeing 737-247, registered as N4527W with serial number 20131. It was manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in 1969 and had logged 14076 airframe hours. It was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9A engines and after the accident, the aircraft was written off after the accident.

Cause

The safety board concluded the cause as itwas likely due to the pilot had failed to judge when he failed to execute a missed approach and kept a non-precision approach when landing without assessing the aircraft’s position to the runway’s threshold, the contributing factors to the crash were the height and speed causing the aircraft crossed the approach end of the runway including the failures of the two other flight crew not providing with the needed callouts, claiming it a pilot error accident.

References

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