Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 22 JUN 1949 |
| Time: | 13:13 |
| Type: | Convair CV-240-0 |
| Operator: | American Airlines |
| Registration: | N94266 |
| C/n / msn: | 139 |
| First flight: | 1949 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-2800 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 41 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 44 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 5,6 km (3.5 mls) ENE of Memphis Municipal Airport, TN (MEM) (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Memphis Municipal Airport, TN (MEM/KMEM), United States of America |
| Washington-National Airport, DC (DCA/KDCA), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 402 |
The no. 2 engine failed on takeoff and at an altitude of 20-50 feet the propeller auto feathered. The Convair climbed slowly and attained a high nose-up attitude as the crew tried to clear power lines. The airspeed dropped and a belly landing was carried out. The aircraft slid for 217 feet before coming to rest.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A reduction in airspeed resulting from flying the aircraft at a steep climbing attitude after power failure of the right engine, followed by retraction of the flaps which destroyed the aircraft's climb performance. " Sources:
» CAB File No. 1-0084
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Distance from Memphis Municipal Airport, TN to Washington-National Airport, DC as the crow flies is 1216 km (760 miles).
Distance from Memphis Municipal Airport, TN to Washington-National Airport, DC as the crow flies is 1216 km (760 miles).
