Talk:Capital Airlines Flight 20

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Yeah, I did know it was the third in as many years.

My father, John Merriman and John Perkins, all ORF based copilots were to deadhead home on this flight. Paying passengers bumped them.

At least one other Viscount was destroyed as a result of battery exhaustion. In that case the disintegration of the aircraft was extremely similar to the Chase, Maryland, accident.

Capital had a real run of bad luck and a bit of a 'wild west' mentality from the top down.

This was it's last accident, and the failure of the airline to update it's manuals had a lot to do with it, as did a couple of guys making a lot of mistakes.

This accident is one of the few cases of a crew ACTUALLY running out of 'airspeed and altitude' at the same time.

They were so out of airspeed that five trees went straight up through the airplane without being broken off (limbs were). Mark Lincoln (talk) 00:17, 2 February 2010 (UTC)