Statuts: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Date: | mardi 24 novembre 1959 |
Heure: | 05:35 |
Type/Sous-type: | Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation |
Compagnie: | Trans World Airlines - TWA |
Immatriculation: | N102R |
Numéro de série: | 4824 |
Année de Fabrication: | 1957 |
Moteurs: | 4 Wright R-3350 (988TC18EA3) |
Equipage: | victimes: 3 / à bord: 3 |
Passagers: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 0 |
Total: | victimes: 3 / à bord: 3 |
Victimes au sol: | victimes: 8 |
Dégats de l'appareil: | Détruit |
Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Lieu de l'accident: | 0,4 km (0.3 milles) SE of Chicago-Midway Airport, IL (MDW) ( Etats-Unis d'Amérique)
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Phase de vol: | En approche (APR) |
Nature: | Cargo |
Aéroport de départ: | Chicago-Midway Airport, IL (MDW/KMDW), Etats-Unis d'Amérique |
Aéroport de destination: | Los Angeles International Airport, CA (LAX/KLAX), Etats-Unis d'Amérique |
Numéro de vol: | TW595 |
Détails:A Lockheed Constellation, N102R, crashed into a residential area about 400 m southeast of Chicago-Midway Airport, IL (MDW), killing all three persons aboard, demolishing the aircraft, and fatally injuring eight persons on the ground.
TWA Flight 595, loaded with cargo, took off on runway 31L of Midway at approximately 0531, bound for Los Angeles, CA (LAX). As the aircraft began a left turn, the crew notified Midway Tower they had received a fire warning on the No. 2 engine and had shut it down. They also informed the tower the flight would return and land.
The aircraft proceeded in a continuing left turn around the airport in an elliptical pattern and below the clouds which were based at an altitude of 500 to 600 feet.
In the turn to final approach to runway 31 the aircraft banked in excess of 45 degrees during which it developed an excessive rate of sink. When the aircraft reached the tops of the trees its wings were nearly level and its nose was raised in a climbing attitude; however, the descent continued. The wing flaps were being retracted during the last 5 to 10 seconds of the final descent and were found to be symmetrically extended at 24 percent upon impact.
Probable Cause:
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The manoeuvring of the aircraft in a manner that caused it to develop an excessive rate of sink while in the turn to final approach."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Accident number: | final report | Download report: | Final report
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Sources:
» ICAO Circular 64-AN/58 (80-83)
Photos
accident date:
24-11-1959type: Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation
registration: N102R
Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposée destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Chicago-Midway Airport, IL et Los Angeles International Airport, CA est de 2792 km (1745 miles).
Accident location: Exact; as reported in the official accident report.
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tel qu'ils sont connus à ce jour.