Forty occupants were on board (36 passengers and 4 crew members) when during the Williamsport to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton leg a right engine failure and subsequent failure to follow engine out procedures by the flight crew caused the aircraft to crash northeast of the Williamsport Regional Airport.

[1][2] The aircraft a Convair CV-440 (serial number: 125) registered N8415H had 26,266 hours on the air frame and had been delivered to Allegheny in 1953.

Flight attendant Barbara A. Creske was hired in 1963 and had mandatory recurring emergency training the month prior to the crash.

Several witnesses on the ground observed the flight remain south of runway 09/27 center line.

Several airport workers and other witnesses saw fire and smoke trailing the right wing and observed the aircraft climbing slightly.

Flight attendant Barbara Creske led the evacuation helping captain Lauber who suffered low body injures outside to fuselage.