ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 340302
Date: | Sunday 13 February 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lockheed 14-WF62 Super Electra |
Owner/operator: | Guinea Airways Pty Ltd. |
Registration: | VH-CXI |
MSN: | 1414 |
Year of manufacture: | 1938 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 13 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Alice Springs Airport, NT (ASP) -
Australia
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Passenger |
Departure airport: | Alice Springs Airport, NT (ASP/YBAS) |
Destination airport: | Adelaide-Parafield Airport, SA (YPPF) |
Narrative:The aircraft developed a swing on takeoff and ground looped., The left hand main gear and no. 1 engine both separated. A propeller blade tore off and cut through the nose just forward of the pilot's feet. The damage was such that the aircraft was scrapped after usable parts had been removed.
Sources:
The Lockheed File - VH-CXI Location
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