About 0734 EDT, on Seplelrber 11, 1974, Eastern Air Lines, Inc., Flight 212, crashed 3.3 statute miles short of runway 36 at Dougglas Municipal Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina. The flight was conducting a VOR DME nonprecision approachwith visibility restricted by patchy dense ground fo. Of the 82 persons aboard tha aircraft, 11 survived the accident. One survivor died of injuries 29 days after the accident. The aircraft was destroyed by impact and fire.
We determined that the probable causo of the accident was the flightcrew'a lack of altitude awarenness at critical points during the approach due to poor cockpit discipline in that the crew did not follow prescribed procedures.
