ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-240-4 PH-TEI Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport (AMS)
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Status:
Date:Monday 25 May 1953
Time:15:30
Type:Silhouette image of generic CVLP model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Convair CV-240-4
Operator:KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Registration: PH-TEI
MSN: 125
First flight: 1948
Total airframe hrs:7104
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney R-2800
Crew:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 28
Total:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 34
Ground casualties:Fatalities: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport (AMS) (   Netherlands)
Crash site elevation: -3 m (-10 feet) amsl
Phase: Initial climb (ICL)
Nature:International Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:Amsterdam-Schiphol International Airport (AMS/EHAM), Netherlands
Destination airport:Paris (unknown airport), France
Narrative:
Convair CV-240 "Paulus Potter" taxied to runway 05 for takeoff. The airplane accelerated down the runway and after a ground run of 700 m, the captain rotated the plane. After flap retraction at a height of about 60 feet and a speed of 145 mph, the airplane started to lose height. The captain closed the throttles and belly landed on the runway. The airplane slid 200 m down the runway, continued past the threshold, crossed a road and came to rest in a field. Many spectators were present on the road and two girls were killed as the airplane crossed the road.

Sources:
» Uitspraak Raad voor de Luchtvaart


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type: Convair CV-240-4
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accident date: 25-05-1953
type: Convair CV-240-4
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accident date: 25-05-1953
type: Convair CV-240-4
registration: PH-TEI
photo of Convair-CV-240-4-PH-TEI
accident date: 25-05-1953
type: Convair CV-240-4
registration: PH-TEI
 
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.
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