Narrative:
During a test flight the no. 1 engine failed. After shutting it down, the crew tried to return to Seletar Airport. The no. 2 engine cut out three times intermittently while returning. The crew was forced to ditch the Convair in 8 m of water in the Straits of Johore, some 400 m short of runway 20. No maintenance was recorded since the aircraft arrived at 15 May 1975.
Ditching
» NTSB
| Status: | |
| Date: | Wednesday 17 September 1975 |
| Time: | 12:02 |
| Type: |  Convair CV-240-4 |
| Operator: | Asiatic International Airways |
| Registration: | N8329C |
| MSN: | 110 |
| First flight: | 1948 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
| Location: | 400 m off Singapore-Seletar Airport (XSP) ( Singapore)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Singapore-Seletar Airport (XSP/WSSL), Singapore |
| Singapore-Seletar Airport (XSP/WSSL), Singapore |
During a test flight the no. 1 engine failed. After shutting it down, the crew tried to return to Seletar Airport. The no. 2 engine cut out three times intermittently while returning. The crew was forced to ditch the Convair in 8 m of water in the Straits of Johore, some 400 m short of runway 20. No maintenance was recorded since the aircraft arrived at 15 May 1975.
Classification:
Ditching
Sources:
» Aviation News 17 October 1975» NTSB
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