N626TX, the aircraft involved in the accident while still being used by Air Canada as CF-TLF
Accident
Date
November 15, 1987
Summary
Crashed following loss of control on takeoff[1]
Site
Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Douglas DC-9-14
Operator
Continental Airlines
IATA flight No.
CO1713
ICAO flight No.
COA1713
Call sign
CONTINENTAL 1713
Registration
N626TX
Flight origin
Denver–Stapleton Int'l Airport
Destination
Boise Airport
Occupants
82
Passengers
77
Crew
5
Fatalities
28
Injuries
53
Survivors
54
Continental Airlines Flight 1713 was a commercial airline flight that crashed while taking off in a snowstorm from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, on November 15, 1987.[2][3][4][5][6] The Douglas DC-9 airliner, operated by Continental Airlines, was making a scheduled flight to Boise, Idaho. Twenty-five passengers and three crew members died in the crash.[1]: 20
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation of the accident determined that the most probable cause of the accident was the failure on the part of the pilot in command to have the aircraft deiced a second time before takeoff.
^ ab"Continental Airlines, Inc., Flight 1713, McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14, N626TX, Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, November 15, 1987" (PDF). Aircraft Accident Report. National Transportation Safety Board. September 27, 1988. NTSB/AAR-88/09. Retrieved September 1, 2016. - Copy at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (note the ERAU copy does not include the errata sheet, and may be older than the one on the NTSB website).
^"26 killed in crash of jetliner". Reading Eagle. (Pennsylvania). November 16, 1987. p. 1.
^"Doomed jet veered, tilted". Spokane Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. November 16, 1987. p. A1.
^"Jetliner flips on runway; 26 killed". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. November 16, 1987. p. 1A.
^Mason, K.C. (November 16, 1987). "Clues sought in disaster". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). UPI. p. A1.
^Jones, Tamara; Malnic, Eric (November 17, 1987). "Survivors recount horror; probe begins". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). (Los Angeles Times). p. 1A.
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