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 | | Mohawk Airlines Flight 405, a Fairchild FH227B twin-engine turboprop registered N7818M, was a domestic scheduled passenger flight operated by Mohawk Airlines that crashed into a house on March 3, 1972, on final approach to Albany International Airport, New York, killing 17 people. |
 | | The weather at the airport was reported to the flight crew as "ceiling indefinite, 1,200 feet obscured, 2 miles visibility in light snow, surface winds (from) 360 degrees (north) at 9 knots". |
 | | As the Fairchild FH227B twin-engine turboprop reached 8.5 miles from the airport, the flight crew contacted the Mohawk's company operations center via radio and informed them that the left propeller was 'hung up' in the cruise pitch lock, which would prevent normal thrust reduction on that side, needed for landing. |
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