Status: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Date: | Saturday 11 August 1951 |
Time: | 09:25 |
Type: | Douglas DC-3D |
Operator: | Air France |
Registration: | F-BAXB |
MSN: | 42971 |
First flight: | 1946 |
Total airframe hrs: | 5750 |
Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Crew: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
Total: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Aircraft fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Location: | Moisville ( France)
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Phase: | En route (ENR) |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB), France |
Destination airport: | Paris-Le Bourget Airport (LBG/LFPB), France |
Narrative:The DC-3 departed Le Bourget Airport at 07:50 on a flight to test a new type of air scoop, fitted to one of the engines. At 09:25 witnesses saw the aircraft break up in flight and crash.
Probable Cause:
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Abnormal flight maneuver made when the crew experienced difficulty in resuming normal flight on the two engines. Overspeed, reduction of pitch or difficulty in restarting the engine may have created a dangerous situation and caused the aircraft to stall in dissymmetrical flight, thus subjecting the airframe to stresses accompanied by buffeting which was either alternating or exceeded the design limits of the structure and caused the tail-plane to break off."
Classification:
Tail failure
Loss of control
Sources:
» ICAO Circular 38-AN/33 (16-18)
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.