Delta Air Lines Flight 9570

Delta Air Lines Flight 9570
Accident summary
A Delta Air Lines Douglas DC-9-10, similar to the one involved.
Date	30 May 1972
Summary	wake turbulence
Site	Greater Southwest International Airport, Fort Worth, Texas
Passengers	0
Crew	4
Fatalities	4 (all)
Injuries (non-fatal)	0
Survivors	0
Aircraft type	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14
Operator	Delta Air Lines
Registration	N3305L^[1]

Delta Air Lines Flight 9570 crashed on 30 May 1972 at the Greater Southwest International Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, while conducting a training flight. The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14, began to oscillate about the roll axis after crossing the runway threshold during a landing approach, then rolled rapidly to the right and struck the runway with the right wing low. This flight's crash has been attributed to wake turbulence behind a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 that made a touch-and-go landing ahead of it. The plane's occupants consisted of three pilots and an FAA inspector, all of whom were killed in the crash and subsequent fire. The resulting investigation prompted changes to the minimum distance that aircraft must keep when following "heavy" aircraft.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "FAA Registry". Federal Aviation Administration.
↑ Aircraft Accident Report Delta Air Lines, Inc., McDonnell Douglas, DC-9-14, N3305L, Greater Southwest International Airport, Fort Worth. Texas. May 30. 1972 (PDF) (Report). National Transportation Safety Board. March 13, 1973. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 21, 2015. Retrieved November 18, 2012.
↑ Job, Macarthur (1994). "Chapter 10:"...Caution - Wake Turbulence!"". Air Disaster:Volume 1. Aerospace Publications. pp. 79–87. ISBN 1875671110.

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Accidents and incidents	Flight 821 (1969) Flight 841 (1972) Flight 9570 (1972) 1972 Chicago-O'Hare runway collision Flight 723 (1973) Samuel Byck (1974) Flight 191 (1985) Flight 1141 (1988) Flight 1288 (1996) Flight 1989 (2001) Flight 1086 (2015)

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