Statuts:	Enquête Officielle
Date:	08 AOU 1956
Heure:	05:05
Type/Sous-type:	Fairchild C-82A-20-FA Packet
Compagnie:	Sky Spray
Immatriculation:	N4832V
Numéro de série:	10070
Année de Fabrication:	1044
Heures de vol:	1016
Moteurs:	2 Pratt & Whitney R-2800-85
Equipage:	victimes: 2 / à bord: 2
Passagers:	victimes: 3 / à bord: 3
Total:	victimes: 5 / à bord: 5
Dégats de l'appareil:	Détruit
Conséquences:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Lieu de l'accident:	Boca Raton Public Airport, FL (BCT) (Etats-Unis d'Amérique)
Phase de vol:	En approche (APR)
Nature:	Travaux Agricoles
Aéroport de départ:	Miami-Masters Field, FL, Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Aéroport de destination:	Boca Raton Public Airport, FL (BCT/KBCT), Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Détails:
The C-82 Packet plane operated on spraying missions in Florida. It had just completed a low-level mission against an infestation of Mediterranean fruit fly and was being ferried back from Miami-Masters Field, FL to Boca Raton Public Airport, FL (BCT). At an altitude of 200 feet smoke began to appear from the nr.2 engine. The aircraft was in a banking turn at the time and subsequently plummeted to the ground bursting into flames, the pilot having lost control due to differential thrust while the aircraft was in a turning manoeuvre.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was loss of power on the left engine and the drag-induced effect of the unfeathered left, propeller, resulting in loss of directional control during an attempted go-around."

Sources:
» NTSB
» Fairchild C-82 Packet website / Simon Beck