- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: May 12, 1959
Time: 1613
Location: Chase, Maryland
Operator: Capital Airlines
Flight #: 75
Route: New York City - Atlanta
AC Type: Vickers Viscount 745D
Registration: N7463
cn / ln: 287
Aboard: 31   (passengers:27  crew:4)
Fatalities: 31   (passengers:27  crew:4)
Ground: 0
Summary: Disintegrated in-flight due to severe turbulence after penetrating a thunderstorm. Icing. A farmhand observed a large chuck of ice fall from the plane seconds before the crash. A second plane crash involving Capital Airlines occurred at Charleston, WV on this same day.
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