Capital Airlines Flight 67 was a domestic scheduled U.S.

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Capital Airlines Capital Airlines may refer to: * Beijing Capital Airlines, an airline based in China formerly named Deer Air * Capital Airlines (United States), a now-defunct 20th-century American airline * Capital Airlines (Nigeria), a now-defunct airline based i ...

which

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to Freeland, Michigan, during a severe snowstorm on April 6, 1958, killing all 47 people on board. The flight was en route from Flint-Bishop Airport to the Freeland-Tri City Airport (now MBS International Airport) when it crashed. �
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/ref> Flight 67 was the first of four fatal crashes in the space of two years involving Capital Airlines

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/ref> the others were Capital Airlines Flight 300 (May 1958),

Capital Airlines Flight 75 Capital Airlines Flight 75 was a domestic scheduled Capital Airlines passenger flight between La Guardia Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. A Vickers Viscount flying the route crashed in Chase, Ma ...

(May 1959), and

Capital Airlines Flight 20 Capital Airlines Flight 20 was a U.S. scheduled passenger flight from Washington, D.C. to Norfolk, Virginia. A Vickers Viscount flying the route crashed into a farm in Charles City County, Virginia, on January 18, 1960. The accident was the fou ...

(January 1960). Approach conditions towards Freeland were poor due to the weather; there was restricted visibility, and conditions were ripe for icing. The plane's crew apparently attempted a steep turn to align the craft with the

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. This caused the plane to stall, which was followed by a

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. The crew could not regain control, leading to the crash. The official cause of the crash was listed as an undetected buildup of

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on the

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which, coupled with airspeed and the design of the aircraft, caused it to lose control. Furthermore, the aircraft's stall warning device was inoperative. A

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to the victims was unveiled in a local cemetery in 2001.

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