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| Name |
Dr. Wyand Francis Doerner |
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Jr. |
| Born |
14 May 1921 |
Cumberland. MD  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
19 Jul 1967 |
Hendersonville, Henderson, NC |
| Cause: Airline Crash - Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, Hendersonville NC |
| Buried |
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Cumberland, Allegany Co., MD |
| Notes |
- Name: Wyand F. Doerner Jr.
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Birth Year: 1921
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Burial Date: 24 Jul 1967
Burial Place: Cumberland, Maryland
Cemetery: Ss. Peter & Paul Cem.
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Residence: Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland
Street Address: 836 Windsor Road
Gender: Male
Death Age: 46
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Occupation: Medical Doctor
Birth Date: 14 May 1921
Birthplace: Cumberland, Md.
Father: Wyand F. Doerner Sr.
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Mother: Anne Reilly
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Spouse: Doris Reber Doerner
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Additional Relatives: X
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Reference Number: v 22B cn 22849
Film Number: 1953817 [1]
- http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=84458081 [2]
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_Airlines_Flight_22
Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 was a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22 on a scheduled airline flight in the United States from Asheville Regional Airport in Asheville, North Carolina to Roanoke Regional Airport in Roanoke, Virginia. Shortly after departure, the flight collided with a twin-engine Cessna 310 on approach to the same airport. Both aircraft were destroyed and all passengers and crew killed.
The aircraft were both operating under instrument flight rules and both were in radio contact with the Asheville control tower, though on different frequencies.
Original investigation
This was the first major airline accident investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), newly formed to replace the Civil Aeronautics Board. The NTSB's report placed the primary responsibility for the accident on the Cessna pilot, while citing air traffic control procedures as a contributing factor, and recommended a review of minimum pilot skill levels required for instrument flight.
Controversy and new investigation
In 2006, however, 38 years after the accident, the NTSB agreed to reopen the investigation because of apparent irregularities identified by Paul Houle, a historian who spent several years studying the accident. Houle alleged the following problems with the NTSB's original investigation:
The original NTSB report omitted the fact that the Cessna pilot had properly reported his heading, which should have alerted air traffic control to a potential conflict between the two planes. The report claims that there was a four-second pause at that point, but the transcript shows no such pause (FAA Tower Tapes, Asheville, NC 7/19/67).
The original NTSB report does not mention that there was a fire in a cockpit ashtray in the 727, which (as shown by the cockpit voice recorder transcript) occupied the attention of the 727 crew for the 35 seconds before the collision (N68650 CVR tapes, 7/19/67).
The lead NTSB investigator had an apparent conflict of interest, since his brother was a vice president and director of Piedmont Airlines (Court testimony, 1968).
Houle also mentioned that, at the time, the newly-formed NTSB was not fully independent of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), since both reported to the Department of Transportation. Houle claimed that these conflicts of interest led the NTSB to avoid citing either Piedmont or FAA controllers as primary causes of the accident.
In early 2007, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) decided to confirm their original findings, upholding the probable cause it found in 1968 for the midair collision. In a February 2007 letter, the NTSB notified Paul Houle it had voted 3-1 that his arguments were unsubstantiated (Letter from Mark Rosenker, NTSB Chairman, February, 2007).
Notable passengers
John T. McNaughton, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Robert McNamara's closest advisor, was a passenger on Flight 22, along with his wife and son. [3]
- Full NTSB Report
http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR68-AJ.pdf [4]
- Accident description
Status: Final
Date: 19 JUL 1967
Time: 12:01 EDT
Type: Boeing 727-22
Operator: Piedmont Airlines
Registration: N68650
C/n / msn: 18295/4
First flight: 1963-05-22 (4 years 2 months)
Total airframe hrs: 6445
Engines: 3 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7
Crew: Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Passengers: Fatalities: 74 / Occupants: 74
Total: Fatalities: 79 / Occupants: 79
Collision casualties: Fatalities: 3
Airplane damage: Written off
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Hendersonville, NC (United States of America) show on map
Phase: En route (ENR)
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Asheville Municipal Airport, NC (AVL) (AVL/KAVL), United States of America
Destination airport: Roanoke Municipal Airport, VA (ROA) (ROA/KROA), United States of America
Flightnumber: 22
Narrative:
Piedmont Flight 22 took off from Asheville runway 16 at 11:58 for an IFR flight to Roanoke. The flight crew had to maintain runway heading until reaching 5000 feet. The controller placed this restriction on Flight 22 to keep it on a southeasterly course until Cessna 310 N3121S had reported over the Asheville VOR. The Cessna, owned by Lanseair was on a company business flight from Charlotte, NC to Asheville, NC with three occupants on board. While the Boeing 727 was still on its takeoff roll the pilot of the Cessna reported "Two one Sierra just passed over the VOR, we're headed for the ... (4sec pause) ... for .. ah .. Asheville now." The Approach controller then cleared the Cessna to descend and maintain 6000 feet. At 11:59:44 the controller cleared Flight 22 to "... climb unrestricted to the VOR, report passing the VOR". He then cleared the Cessna for an ADF-2 approach to runway 16. The Boeing 727 was in a climbing left turn
when both aircraft collided at an altitude of 6132 feet.
Weather was a 2500 feet ceiling with broken clouds and 4 miles visibility in haze.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The deviation of the Cessna from its IFR clearance resulting in a flight path into airspace allocated to the Piedmont Boeing 727. The reason for such deviation cannot be specifically or positively identified. The minimum control procedures utilized by the FAA in handling of the Cessna were a contributing factor."
Follow-up / safety actions:
The NTSB recommended the FAA to review the existing minimum levels of skill required for the issuance of an instrument pilot rating and evaluate these against the present and anticipated ATC system proficiency level requisites.
In June 2006, the NTSB agreed to reopen an investigation into the collision. Local amateur historian Paul Houle filed a petition for reconsideration in March 2005 after years of investigating the history of the collision. Houle's petition makes three main arguments: 1) The original NTSB report ignored the fact that the Cessna pilot reported his heading, which should have alerted the air traffic controller that there was a problem; 2) The NTSB report made no mention of a fire in a cockpit ashtray that preoccupied the Piedmont crew in the final 35 seconds before the collision; and 3) The lead NTSB investigator of the accident was the brother of a Piedmont vice president. [5]
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I13679 |
Extended Families of Childress |
| Last Modified |
8 Jun 2020 |
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| Sources |
- [S760] North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994.
- [S524] Findagrave.com.
- [S126] Wikipedia.
- [S764] airdisaster.com.
- [S765] Aviation Safety Network.
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