Accident | |
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Date | February 21, 1982 |
Summary | In-flight fire due to defective windshield washer/deicing system |
Site | Scituate Reservoir, Scituate, near Providence, Rhode Island |
Aircraft | |
The aircraft involved in the accident in a previous livery. | |
Aircraft type | De Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter |
Operator | Pilgrim Airlines |
IATA flight No. | PM458 |
ICAO flight No. | PMT458 |
Call sign | PILGRIM 458 |
Registration | N127PM |
Flight origin | LaGuardia Airport, New York City, New York |
1st stopover | Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport, Stratford, Connecticut |
2nd stopover | Tweed New Haven Airport, New Haven, Connecticut |
3rd stopover | Groton–New London Airport, Groton, Connecticut |
Destination | Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts |
Occupants | 12 |
Passengers | 10 |
Crew | 2 |
Fatalities | 1 |
Injuries | 11 |
Survivors | 11 |
Pilgrim Airlines Flight 458 was a scheduled United States passenger air commuter flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York City to Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, with stopovers in Bridgeport, New Haven, and Groton, Connecticut. On February 21, 1982, the de Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 operating the flight made a forced landing on the frozen Scituate Reservoir near Providence, Rhode Island, after a fire erupted in the cockpit and cabin due to leakage of flammable windshield washer/deicing fluid. One passenger was unable to escape the aircraft and died of smoke inhalation, and eight of the remaining nine passengers, as well as both crew members, received serious injuries from the fire and crash-landing.[1][2][3][4][5]