Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 13 MAR 1957 |
| Time: | 09:15 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47A-25-DK |
| Operator: | Indian Airlines |
| Registration: | VT-CFB |
| C/n / msn: | 13626 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Ground casualties: | Fatalities: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Kingsway Camp (India) |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Delhi-Safdarjung Airport (VIDD), India |
| Delhi-Safdarjung Airport (VIDD), India |
The DC-3 took off from Safdarjung at 08:32 for a local training flight. This was the 1st flight in a series of 8 to train a captain as a flight instructor. During one of a series of manoeuvres, an approach to stall, the aircraft entered a spin. Partial recovery was made, but the plane was already too close to the ground and crashed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was attributed to loss of control of the aircraft as a result of a spin, inadvertently entered into at a height too low for recovery." Sources:
» ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 59-AN/54 (9-11)
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Distance from Delhi-Safdarjung Airport to Delhi-Safdarjung Airport as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
Distance from Delhi-Safdarjung Airport to Delhi-Safdarjung Airport as the crow flies is 0 km (0 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.
