Estado: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Fecha: | domingo 5 septiembre 1954 |
Hora: | 02:39 |
Tipo: | Lockheed L-1049C-55-81 Super Constellation |
Operador: | KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
Registración: | PH-LKY |
Numéro de série: | 4509 |
Año de Construcción: | 1953 |
Horas Totales de la Célula: | 2498 |
Motores: | 4 Wright R-3350 (972TC18DA1) |
Tripulación: | Fatalidades: 3 / Ocupantes: 10 |
Pasajeros: | Fatalidades: 25 / Ocupantes: 46 |
Total: | Fatalidades: 28 / Ocupantes: 56 |
Daños en la Aeronave: | Anulado |
Consecuencias: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Ubicación: | 2,5 km (1.6 milles) SE de la costa de Shannon Airport (SNN) ( Irlanda)
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Fase: | Ascenso Inicial (ICL) |
Naturaleza: | Vuelo Internacional Programado |
Aeropuerto de Salida: | Shannon Airport (SNN/EINN), Irlanda |
Aeropuerto de Llegada: | New York-Idlewild International Airport, NY (IDL/KIDL), Estados Unidos de América |
Número de Vuelo: | KL633 |
Descripción:The KLM Super Constellation, named "Triton", operated on the Amsterdam-New York route. A scheduled refueling stop was made at Shannon. The flight left Shannon Terminal Building at 02:30 hours at night and taxied to runway 14 (5643 feet long). The before takeoff run-up was completed in takeoff position.
Takeoff was made at 02:38. V1 speed was reached at 3500 feet and lift-off at 125 knots was made just over the V2 speed at approximately 4000 feet from threshold. The flight then passed over the remaining 1600 feet of runway in a shallow climb, retracting its landing gear. The Constellation entered a shallow descent over the River Shannon. The duration of the flight was about 31 seconds from the time it passed over the end of the runway until the aircraft first contacted the water in a tail-down slightly right-wing low attitude. It came to rest on the Middle Ground, a shallow mudbank 8170 feet from the end of the runway, after losing engines no. 3 and 4.
Probable Cause:
PROBABLE CAUSE: "1) Failure of the captain to correlate and interpret his instrument indications properly during flap retraction, resulting in necessary action not being taken in sufficient time. This failure was partially accounted for by the effect on instrument indications of inadvertent and unexpected gear re-extension. 2) Loss of aircraft performance due to inadvertent landing gear re-extension. 3) The captain failed to maintain sufficient climb to give him an opportunity of meeting unexpected occurrences."
Fuentes:
» ICAO Accident Digest Circular 50-AN/45 (20-33)
» Nederlandse Constallations / H.Dekker
Fotos
accident date:
05-09-1954type: Lockheed L-1049C Super Constellation
registration: PH-LKY
Flight path of KLM Flt 633 after takeoff from Shannon - 5 SEP 1954
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Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does
not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Shannon Airport to New York-Idlewild International Airport, NY as the crow flies is 4910 km (3069 miles).
Accident location: Exact; deduced from official accident report.
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.