Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 14 JAN 1965 |
| Time: | 12:08 |
| Type: | Lockheed 18 Learstar I |
| Operator: | Burroughs Corp. |
| Registration: | N512V |
| C/n / msn: | 18-2580 |
| First flight: | 1943 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7877 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Detroit-Willow Run Airport, MI (YIP) (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Detroit-Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI (DTW/KDTW), United States of America |
| Detroit-Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI (DTW/KDTW), United States of America |
The Lodestar pilots were cleared for an approach to Detroit-Willow Run Airport runway 05R. While on final approach the crew indicated that they were going around. Immediately after pulling up the aircraft entered a steep left turn, pitching slightly nose down. The left wing of the airplane struck the ground 919 feet left of and 1900 feet beyond the end of the runway. The aircraft crashed and burned 474 feet further on.
Right flap cable failed during flap retraction. Crashed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A split-flap condition resulting from failure of the right flap retract cable caused by cable misalignment" Sources:
» The Lockheed Twins / Peter J Marson
» NTSB
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Distance from Detroit-Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI to Detroit-Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
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