Date: | Thursday 20 June 1996 |
Time: | 14:08 |
Type: | Douglas DC-3A-S1C3G |
Owner/operator: | Loren Davis Ministries International |
Registration: | N23WT |
MSN: | 11650 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Total airframe hrs: | 51307 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Cut and Shoot, TX -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Conroe-Montgomery County Airport, TX (CXO/KCXO) |
Destination airport: | Conroe-Montgomery County Airport, TX (CXO/KCXO) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The DC-3 was on a training flight when, at initial climb the co-pilot called for METO (maximum except takeoff) power. After the pilot-in-command set METO power, the left engine lost power. and the PIC took over control and called for the co-pilot to feather the no. 1 propeller, but the co-pilot didn't hear this call
At 90 knots airspeed and wings level, the airplane struck the top of a 55 foot tall hickory tree approximately 3,960 feet from the departure end of runway 14 and struck a trailer roof, trees, a small pickup truck, and power lines before coming to rest upright in a residential front yard 337 feet from the initial impact point.
The cockpit area and main fuselage burnt out.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The flight instructors failure to use the single engine best angle of climb airspeed resulting in a loss of control of the aircraft. Factors were the loss of power to the left engine for undetermined reasons, the flight instructor not being qualified to be pilot in-command in the DC-3, his lack of recent experience in the DC-3, and the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | FTW96FA262 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 8 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
ICAO Adrep Summary 2/97 (#76)
Scramble 210
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Opa-Locka Airport, FL (OPF); March 1983
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