Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 13 JAN 1987 |
| Time: | 13:54 EST |
| Type: | NAMC YS-11A-213 |
| Operator: | Mid Pacific Airlines |
| Registration: | N906TC |
| C/n / msn: | 2154 |
| First flight: | 1970 |
| Engines: | 2 Rolls Royce 542-105 Dart |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Remington, IN (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route / landing (ENR/LDG) |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Indianapolis International Airport, IN (IND/KIND), United States of America |
| Lafayette-Purdue University Airport, IN (LAF/KLAF), United States of America |
During a training/test flight the crew members tried to perform an approach to landing stall. When the stall recovery was initiated, both propellers 'hung up' when the high (cruise pitch) stops of each propeller failed to withdraw. As the power levers were advanced, turbine gas temperatures exceeded limitations; the left propeller auto-feathered, the right propeller was later feathered by the captain. Restart procedures were attempted without success, and a forced landing in a plowed cornfield ensued.
PROBABLE CAUSE:
"Procedures/directives .. not followed .. pilot in command
Wheels up landing .. intentional .. pilot in command
Powerplant controls .. improper use of .. pilot in command
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS
Inattentive .. pilot in command" Events:
Sources:
» Aviation Letter 244
» NTSB
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Distance from Indianapolis International Airport, IN to Lafayette-Purdue University Airport, IN as the crow flies is 94 km (59 miles).
Distance from Indianapolis International Airport, IN to Lafayette-Purdue University Airport, IN as the crow flies is 94 km (59 miles).
