Accident
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Estado: | |
| Fecha: | 29 AGO 1956 |
| Hora: | 20:45 |
| Tipo: | Douglas DC-6B |
| Operador: | Canadian Pacific Air Lines - CPAL |
| Registración: | CF-CUP |
| Numéro de série: | 43843/324 |
| Año de Construcción: | 1953 |
| Motores: | 4 Pratt & Whitney R-2800 |
| Tripulación: | Fatalidades: 4 / Ocupantes: 8 |
| Pasajeros: | Fatalidades: 11 / Ocupantes: 14 |
| Total: | Fatalidades: 15 / Ocupantes: 22 |
| Daños en la Aeronave: | Anulado |
| Consecuencias: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Ubicación: | Cold Bay, AK (Estados Unidos de América) |
| Fase: | Aproximación (APR) |
| Naturaleza: | Vuelo Internacional Programado |
| Aeropuerto de Salida: | Vancouver International Airport, BC (YVR/CYVR), Canadá |
| Cold Bay Airport, AK (CDB/PACD), Estados Unidos de América | |
| Número de Vuelo: | 307 |
Canadian Pacific Flight 307 (a DC-6 named "Empress of Mexico City") took off from Vancouver at 13:47 BST for a flight to Hong Kong with stops at Cold Bay and Tokyo. Cold Bay weather reported to the crew was indefinite ceiling, 500 feet sky obscured; visibility 1,5 miles; light drizzle, fog; temperature 47F; dewpoint 46F; wind WNW 21 knots. At 20:35 the crew reported over the Cold Bay range station outbound on a standard instrument approach to runway 14. The procedure turn inbound was completed at 20:42. When the aircraft broke through the clouds it may have been too close in and high. Combined with an excessive groundspeed due to quartering tailwind, this may have caused the pilot-in-command to decide to go-around.
Power was applied and flaps raised fully (instead of retracted to 20 degrees). The aircraft then struck the ground in a descending left turn and caught fire.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The full retraction of the wing flaps at low altitude during a circling approach without necessary corrective action being taken by the crew." Fuentes:
» ICAO Accident Digest No.8, Circular 54-AN/49 (123-125)
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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Distance from Vancouver International Airport, BC to Cold Bay Airport, AK as the crow flies is 2717 km (1698 miles).
Distance from Vancouver International Airport, BC to Cold Bay Airport, AK as the crow flies is 2717 km (1698 miles).
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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