Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 23 MAY 1960 |
| Time: | 11:52 EST |
| Type: | Convair CV-880-22-1 |
| Operator: | Delta Air Lines |
| Registration: | N8804E |
| C/n / msn: | 22-00-16 |
| First flight: | 1960 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Atlanta Airport, GA (ATL) (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Atlanta Municipal Airport, GA (ATL/KATL), United States of America |
| Atlanta Municipal Airport, GA (ATL/KATL), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 1903 |
Shortly after lift-off, the aircraft assumed a nose high attitude, banked steeply to the left and crashed nose down.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The aircraft was stalled, for reasons undetermined, at an altitude too low to effect recovery." Events:
Sources:
» WCAA 2nd ed. / C.Y. Kimura
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Distance from Atlanta Municipal Airport, GA to Atlanta Municipal Airport, GA as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
Distance from Atlanta Municipal Airport, GA to Atlanta Municipal Airport, GA 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.
