ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules N517SJ Fairfield-Travis AFB, CA (SUU)
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Status:Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Date:Wednesday 8 April 1987
Time:17:32
Type:Silhouette image of generic C130 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules
Operator:Southern Air Transport
Registration: N517SJ
MSN: 4558
First flight: 1974
Total airframe hrs:17027
Engines: 4 Allison 501-D22A
Crew:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:Fairfield-Travis AFB, CA (SUU) (   United States of America)
Crash site elevation: 19 m (62 feet) amsl
Phase: Landing (LDG)
Nature:Training
Departure airport:Fairfield-Travis AFB, CA (SUU/KSUU), United States of America
Destination airport:Fairfield-Travis AFB, CA (SUU/KSUU), United States of America
Flightnumber: 517
Narrative:
The Hercules aircraft took off from Travis AFB at 14:45 for the second of a series of local training flights. Approaches and practice landings were carried out at McClellan AFB before returning to Travis. A runway 21L ILS approach and full stop landing were to be made by a 1st officer candidate. A balked landing forced the captain to take over the controls and initiate a go-around. The no. 1 and no. 2 engines both decelerated when throttles were advanced. The aircraft then banked left and struck the airport perimeter fence in a nose-low and steep left-wing low attitude.

Probable Cause:

PROBABLE CAUSE: "Inadequate Southern Air Transport engine maintenance which allowed the accumulation of oil residues in the engine compressor sections until two engines were incapable of responding to rapid demands for increased power. Contributing to the accident was the continuation of the go-around by the captain after power had been lost from two engines and the movement of the flap handle to the flaps retracted position during the go-around."

Accident investigation:

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Investigating agency: NTSB
Status: Investigation completed
Accident number: NTSB/AAR-88-03-SUM
Download report: Final report

Classification:

Loss of control

Sources:
» Aviation Letter 246
» NTSB/AAR-88/03/SUM


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photo of Lockheed-L-100-30-Hercules-ZS-RSE
accident date: 08-04-1987
type: Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules
registration: ZS-RSE
 

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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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