Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 24 MAY 1988 |
| Time: | 14:54 EST |
| Type: | Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante |
| Operating for: | Delta Connection |
| Leased from: | Atlantic Southeast Airlines - ASA |
| Registration: | N65DA |
| C/n / msn: | 110389 |
| First flight: | 1982 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 13005 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Lawton Municipal Airport, OK (LAW) (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Lawton Municipal Airport, OK (LAW), United States of America |
| Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, TX (DFW/KDFW), United States of America |
Failure of no. 1 engine during the take-off from runway 35. After climbing to 50-100 feet the Bandeirante lost altitude and struck the ground. Part of the aircraft caught fire. It appeared that the compressor turbine blade of no. 1 engine had separated.
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Distance from Lawton Municipal Airport, OK to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, TX as the crow flies is 224 km (140 miles).
Distance from Lawton Municipal Airport, OK to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, TX as the crow flies is 224 km (140 miles).
