ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335448
| Date: | Saturday 10 January 1953 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47B-1-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Union of Burma Airways |
| Registration: | XY-ACL |
| MSN: | 25818/14373 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 18 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Myeik -
 Myanmar
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Dawei Airport (TVY/VYDW) |
| Myeik Airport (MGZ/VYME) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
DC-3 XY-ACL operated on the domestic route Rangoon-Dawei (also known as Tavoy)-Myeik (also known as Mergui) when it approached Mergui runway 01. On finals the left wing of the aircraft struck trees. Control was lost and the aircraft landed heavily 820 feet from the runway threshold, causing the no. 2 engine to separate from its mounts. The DC-3 came to rest 475 feet from the threshold, 50 feet from the edge of the runway. Fire destroyed the forward part of the fuselage.
Local airport firefighting services were inadequately equipped.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The crash was attributed to an error of judgement on the part of the pilot, but there was nothing in the evidence to show what may have caused the error nor is there any evidence to show that the error was caused by negligence on the part of the pilot."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest Circular 39-AN/34 (25-26)
Images:
photo (c) David Stedman; 1950
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