Status:	Final
Date:	22 MAY 1989
Time:	10:45
Type:	Douglas C-47A-25-DK
Operator:	Condor Enterprise
Registration:	N47CE
C/n / msn:	13456
First flight:	1944
Total airframe hrs:	17177
Engines:	2 Pratt & Whitney R-2000-7M2-D5
Crew:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Total:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Airplane damage:	Destroyed
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	8 km (5 mls) from De Kalb Airport, IL (United States of America)
Phase:	Approach (APR)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Aurora/Sugar Grove Airport, IL (AUZ), United States of America
Destination airport:	Rockford (unknown airport), IL, United States of America

Narrative:
The DC-3 entered a spin after completing a turn at 2200 feet agl, recovered, entered a second spin and crashed. The wreckage was found with the gear and flaps fully extended and the elevator trim set in a full nose up position.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot-in-command (pic) failed to provide adequate supervision while training the co-pilot and allowed the aircraft to enter a stall/spin, then did not provide adequate remedial action to properly recover from the spin. Factors related to the accident were: use of excessive elevator trim, the pic's lack of training (in approaches to stalls) and lack of experience in the make/model of aircraft, and the co-pilot's lack of recent experience in the make/model of aircraft."

Events:

Sources:
» ICAO Adrep Summary 2/91 (#15)
» NTSB