ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 323567
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| Date: | Wednesday 16 February 2000 |
| Time: | 19:51 |
| Type: |  McDonnell Douglas DC-8-71F |
| Owner/operator: | Emery Worldwide |
| Registration: | N8079U |
| MSN: | 45947/341 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 84447 hours |
| Cycles: | 33395 flights |
| Engine model: | CFMI CFM56-2C1 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 2,4 km E of Sacramento-Mather Airport, CA (MHR) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Sacramento-Mather Airport, CA (MHR/KMHR) |
| Dayton-James Cox Dayton International Airport, OH (DAY/KDAY) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Emery Flight 17 had just departed Sacramento-Mather Airport runway 22L when the crew reported balance problems. A little later the aircraft was seen to crash in a left wing low, nose low attitude, into the Insurance Auto Auctions salvage yard, setting fire to 100-200 cars. Debris cut a swath about 250 yards wide and a 600yds long. The plane's cargo included clothing, transmission fluid and a small amount of 9 grams fuses used to activate automobile air bags. The NTSB is focusing on the possibility that a push rod in an elevator control tab may have been separated from the control system of the plane before impact.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A loss of pitch control resulting from the disconnection of the right elevator control tab. The disconnection was caused by the failure to properly secure and inspect the attachment bolt."
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photo (c) Aviation Safety Network
photo (c) Joachim Bongers, via Werner Fischdick; Shannon Airport (SNN); July 1995
photo (c) Alex Waning; San Francisco-International Airport, CA (SFO)
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