Aviation Accident Report: Northeast Airlines Flight 801/Supplemental Data

by the Civil Aeronautics Board

S U P P L E M E N T A LD A T A

 

Investigation and hearing

 

The New York office of the Civil Aeronautics Board was notified of this accident by the Civil Aeronautics Administration a few minutes after occurrence. An investigation was immediately initiated in accordance with the provisions of Section 70 (a)(2) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended. A public hearing was order by the Board and was held at the Hotel Lexington, New York City, on February 26 and 27, 1952.

 

Air Carrier

 

Northeast Airlines, Inc., is a scheduled air carrier, incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with its principal business office at Boston, Massachusetts. It operates under a currently effective certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board, and an air carrier operating certificate issued by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. These certificates authorize the company to transport by air persons and property over numerous routes within the continental limits of the United States, including that between Boston and. New York.

 

Flight Personnel

 

Captain A. V. R. Marsh, age 44, held a currently effective airline transport certificate with an appropriate rating for the subject aircraft. He had been employed continuously by Northeast Airlines since 1938. His total piloting time was 13,849 hours, of which 2,382 hours had been in Convairs, and he was a company captain and check pilots.

First Officer Austin E. Briggs, age 35, held a currently effective airline transport rating with appropriate-rating for the subject aircraft. He had been employed by the company as a pilot since 1942. His total piloting was about 5,100 hours, of which about 700 had been as copilot on Convairs.

The stewardess was Carolyn M. Hull, who had been with the company for about one year. She had successfully completed the company's stewardess training course in emergency procedures.

 

The Aircraft

 

N 91238 was a Convair CV-240, manufactured by the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in 1949. Its total operational time was 5,962 hours. The engines were Pratt & Whitney R-2800-CA-18, and the propellers Curtiss C6325-740-602.