Runway ‘was too slippery’
NZPA Washington A United . States Government safety board has said that Boston airport officials should have closed an icecovered runway before the crew of a DCIO attempted a landing which ended in Boston harbour. The National Transporta-tion-Safety Board also said yesterday that inadequate Government regulations over the question of when runways should be closed were also to blame' for the acci-. dent in January.
A World Airways flight, with 212 people aboard, overshot the runway at Logan International Airport, crashed through a barrier wall and settled in shallow waters off the harbour with its nose broken away.' Two passengers were never found and are presumed drowned. The safety panel said that the jetliner was allowed to attempt a landing “on a slippery, ice-covered runway, the conditions of which exceeded the airplane’s stop-, ping capability.”
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