Accident Douglas R4D-1 (DC-3) N74663,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334835

Date:	Thursday 8 September 1955
Time:
Type:	Douglas R4D-1 (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Currey Air Transport
Registration:	N74663
MSN:	6257
Year of manufacture:	1943
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 33
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA (BUR) - United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA (BUR/KBUR)
Destination airport:	Oakland Municipal Airport, CA (OAK/KOAK)
Investigating agency:	CAB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Engine no.2 failed during takeoff, forcing the crew to return to the airport. Emergency landing clearance was given and the DC-3 approached Burbank in an excessive nose-high attitude, not aligned with the runway. Some 500 feet short of the airport boundary, the aircraft struck power lines with the left wing. The plane stalled and crashed into a parked US Air Force Douglas C-54 airplane. The DC-3 then cartwheeled into a hangar.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The captain's irrevocable commitment to a landing without radio or visual confirmation of his runway alignment following engine failure immediately after takeoff. A contributing factor was engine malfunction immediately after takeoff in near minimum visibility."

Accident investigation: