Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 23 FEB 1973 |
| Time: | 15:55 |
| Type: | Douglas DC-3F (C-47B-45-DK) |
| Operator: | Southern Air Super |
| Registration: | ZK-AOI |
| C/n / msn: | 16966/34226 |
| First flight: | 1945 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 24261 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Seddon (New Zealand)
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| Phase: | Maneuvering (MNV) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Blenheim-Woodbourne Airport (BHE/NZWB), New Zealand |
| Blenheim-Woodbourne Airport (BHE/NZWB), New Zealand |
The DC-3 crashed into a hillside after the in-flight separation of the right wing.
ASSIGNED CAUSE: "The accident was caused by in-flight separation of the starboard wing due to a loss of structural strength brought about by extensive fatigue cracks in the lower centre wing wraparound and internal doublers inboard of Sta. 142, initiation and propagation to failure of the RH wing cracks being due to consistent overstress." Events:
Sources:
» Aircraft Accident Report No. 73-032 Douglas DC-3 ZK-AOI Seddon, Marlborough 23 February 1973
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