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Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231

1974 in New York (state)Accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 727Airliner accidents and incidents caused by instrument failureAirliner accidents and incidents caused by pilot errorAirliner accidents and incidents in New York (state)
Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in 1974Baltimore ColtsDecember 1974 events in the United StatesNorthwest Airlines accidents and incidentsRockland County, New YorkUse American English from June 2019Use mdy dates from June 2019
Boeing 727 251 Adv, Northwest Airlines AN0200769
Boeing 727 251 Adv, Northwest Airlines AN0200769

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 was the fatal crash of a Boeing 727 in the eastern United States on December 1, 1974 in Harriman State Park near Stony Point, New York, just north of the New York City area. The Northwest Airlines 727 had been chartered to pick up the Baltimore Colts professional football team in Buffalo in western New York.All three crew members on board died when the aircraft struck the ground following a stall and rapid descent caused by the crew's reaction to erroneous airspeed readings caused by atmospheric icing. The icing occurred due to failure to turn on the pitot tube heating at the start of the flight. This was one of two Boeing 727s to crash in the eastern U.S. that day; the other was TWA Flight 514 in northern Virginia, northwest of Dulles airport (250 miles (400 km) to the southwest).

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Boeing 727 251 Adv, Northwest Airlines AN0200769
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