Capital Airlines Flight 20 was a U.S. scheduled passenger flight from Washington , D.C. to Norfolk , Virginia . A Vickers Viscount flying the route crashed into a farm in Charles City County , Virginia , on January 18 , 1960 . The accident was the fourth fatal crash involving a Capital Viscount in less than two years ; the first three were Capital Airlines Flight 67 ( April 1958 ) , Capital Airlines Flight 300 ( May 1958 ) and Capital Airlines Flight 75 ( May 1959 ) . The plane was cruising at an altitude of 8,000 feet when it encountered icing . This caused two engines to fail . As the craft descended , the other two engines also failed , causing the propellers to autofeather . The crew tried and failed to restart the engines , and were unable to unfeather the propellers normally ; they then put the plane into a dive in an attempt to force the propellers from their feathered position . Eventually they succeeded in restarting engine number four . They applied full power to this engine , which caused the craft to enter a circling descent until crashing into trees ; at the time of impact it had almost no forward velocity . Five trees were driven through the fuselage , yet their trunks remained intact
Capital Airlines Flight 67
Capital Airlines Flight 67
Capital Airlines Flight 20