The Fairchild F-27 and Fairchild Hiller FH-227 are versions of the Fokker F27 Friendship twin-engined, turboprop, passenger aircraft formerly manufactured under license by Fairchild Hiller in the United States. The Fairchild F-27 was similar to the standard Fokker F27, while the FH-227 was an independently developed, stretched version.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The inability of the crew to feather the left propeller, in combination with the descent of the aircraft below the prescribed minimum altitudes for the approach. The Board is unable to determine why the left propeller could not be feathered.

Ozark Air Lines Flight 809, an FH-227B, was a regular flight between Nashville Metropolitan Airport, TN (BNA) and St. Louis (STL), with intermediate stops at Clarksville, TN (CKV), Paducah, KY (PAH), Cape Girardeau Airport, MO (CGI) and Marion-Williamson County Airport, IL (MWA) with an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan.

Ozark Air Lines Flight 809, an FH-227B, was a regular flight between Nashville Metropolitan Airport, TN (BNA) and St. Louis (STL), with intermediate stops at Clarksville, TN (CKV), Paducah, KY (PAH), Cape Girardeau Airport, MO (CGI) and Marion-Williamson County Airport, IL (MWA) with an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan.

Ozark Air Lines Flight 809, an FH-227B (N4215), was a regularly with an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan to Lambert-St. Louis The flight departed Marion, Illinois, at 1705 lJ on July 23, 1973, International Airport. Forty-one passengers and three cremnembers were on board.

On December 22, 1972, two helicopters of the Chilean Air Force arrived on the scene and were able to evacuate 16 survivors while 29 other occupants died from their injuries, cold or of hunger.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "An unrecognized loss of altitude orientation during the final portion of an approach into shallow, dense fog. The disorientation was caused by a rapid reduction in the ground guidance segment available to the pilot at a point beyond which a go-around could not be successfully effected." ICAO Circular 107-AN/81 (p.283-302)

Jan 24, 2021 · Delta Air Lines once held the Fairchild-Hiller FH-227B at the beginning of the 1970s. However, the carrier wasn't necessarily seeking to have the plane before taking it on. Additionally, it did not operate the aircraft for long. Let's take a look at how the carrier ended up with the type and why it let it go so soon. Who was the order for?

The TABA Fairchild FH-227 accident happened on 12 June 1982 when a twin-engined Fairchild FH-227B (registered in Brazil as PT-LBV) on an internal scheduled passenger flight from Eirunepé Airport to Tabatinga International Airport crashed in bad weather. [1]

May 2, 2022 · My first FH-227 flight was on an Ozark FH-227B in 1967 or 1968 between ORD and MLI with a stop at SQI, your hometown airport. My first turbine powered flight was on an Ozark F-27 in 1960 on a nonstop from STL to MLI.