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The Aircraft

At the tune of departure from Houston N 9705C, a Lockheed Model L-188A, had had a total tune of 132 hours and 33 minutes. Thus none of the pemodlc mspec— mons, the first of much was to have been at 205 hours, had become due. All of the customary praflight servxce checks were performed during the ten days the alruraft was m use. All pllot complaints (squauks) had been slgned off as corrected. The engmes were Allison (a division of General Motors) moriel 501~D13 and the pro~

pellers were Aero Products (also a (human of General Motors) , modal A6441FN-606.

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