Date: | November 14, 1970 |
Location: | Near Huntington, West Virginia |
Aircraft: | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 |
Reg: | N97S |
Airline: | Southern Airways |
Flight No: | 932 |
Fatalities: | 75 : 75 |
Wreckage of a Southern Airways DC-9 on which all 75 aboard were killed, including 41 players and coaches from the Marshall University football team. The plane crashed one mile short of the runway in rain and fog. Descent below Minimum Descent Altitude during a nonprecision approach under adverse operating conditions was the cause. |