Alan S. Boyd, Chan Gurney, G. Joseph Minetti, Whitney Gillilland for the Civil Aeronautics Board

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Alan S. Boyd, Chan Gurney, G. Joseph Minetti, Whitney Gillilland for the Civil Aeronautics Board Aviation Accident Report: Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 (1961)

It is the opinion of the Board that the laterally erroneous flightpath developed from an initial navigational error at the Casanova omni. It is believed it occurred as an omission in that the flight did not turn in conformity with the V—l4O airway from the inbound radial of 260 degrees to the outbound radial of 239 degrees, a left turn of about 20 degrees. It is believed that the flight continued on the 260-degree radial until it reached the 335-degree radial of the Gordonsville mum at a location approximately 13 miles northwest of the Rochelle intersection.
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Alan S. Boyd, Chan Gurney, G. Joseph Minetti, Whitney Gillilland for the Civil Aeronautics Board Aviation Accident Report: Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 (1961)

About 2040, October 30, 1959, Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashed on Bucks Elbow Mountain located about 13 miles west of the Charlottesville-Albemarle County, Virginia, Airport. The crew of 3 and 23 of 24 passengers were killed; the sole survivor was seriously injured. The aircraft, a DC-3, N 55V, was demolished by impact.
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