Greater Southwest International Airport, Fort Worth, Texas 32°49′48.74″N97°2′56.28″W / 32.8302056°N 97.0489667°W / 32.8302056; -97.0489667
Aircraft
Aircraft type
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14
Operator
Delta Air Lines
Registration
N3305L[1]
Flight origin
Dallas Love Field, Dallas, Texas (KDAL/DAL)
Stopover
Greater Southwest International Airport, Fort Worth, Texas (GSW)
Destination
Dallas Love Field, Dallas, Texas (KDAL/DAL)
Occupants
4
Passengers
0
Crew
4
Fatalities
4
Survivors
0
On May 30, 1972, Delta Air Lines Flight 9570 crashed while attempting to land at the Greater Southwest International Airport (GSW) in Fort Worth, Texas during a training flight. All four occupants aboard the training flight were killed. The crash was determined to be caused by the aircraft flying through wake turbulence, and led to sweeping changes in procedures for maintaining minimum safe distance behind aircraft that generate substantial wake turbulence.
^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. NTSB-AAR-73-3. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 28, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2012. - Copy at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
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