Probable Cause
"The Board is unable to determine the reason for the aircraft not being leveled off at its assigned altitude of 6,000 feet."
The first proven case of a crash caused by a pilot misreading the altimeter by 10,000 feet was of a BEA Vickers Viscount outside Ayr, Scotland, on April 28, 1958. The second proven case was the 1958 Bristol Britannia 312 crash near Christchurch, Dorset, in the south of England, on December 24, 1958. While the former carried only a flight crew, all seven passengers and two crew members perished in the latter accident, and survivors helped to pinpoint the cause.
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