Status:	Final
Date:	06 JUN 1982
Time:	16:54
Type:	Douglas C-47A-90-DL
Operator:	Fromhagen Aviation
Registration:	N95C
C/n / msn:	20139
First flight:	1944
Total airframe hrs:	15033
Engines:	2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830
Crew:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Total:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Airplane damage:	Destroyed
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	St. Petersburg International Airport, FL (PIE) (United States of America)
Phase:	Initial climb (ICL)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	St. Petersburg International Airport, FL (PIE/KPIE), United States of America
Destination airport:	St. Petersburg International Airport, FL (PIE/KPIE), United States of America

Narrative:
After a local maintenance flight the crew returned to St. Petersburg to practice full stop landings. Shortly after becoming airborne during the 2nd takeoff, the right engine suffered a power loss. The DC-3 climbed to about 50 feet agl, veered right and crashed east of runway 35. The captain had 5 hours as pilot in command of DC-3 airplanes during the last 5 months with 1 hour and 2 takeoff & landings over the last 90 days. This was the first flight in a DC-3 for the co-pilot with no record of any training in the DC-3.

PROBABLE CAUSE:
reason for occurrence undetermined
procedures/directives .. not followed .. pilot in command
emergency procedure .. improper .. pilot in command
inadequate recurrent training .. pilot in command
lack of recent experience in type of aircraft .. pilot in command
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS:
maintenance .. inadequate .. other maintenance personnel
fuel system,selector/valve .. Inadequate

Sources:
» NTSB