ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 341324
| Date: | Saturday 3 October 1942 |
| Time: | 19:05 |
| Type: |  Vought-Sikorsky VS-44 |
| Owner/operator: | American Export Airlines |
| Registration: | NC41880 |
| MSN: | 4401 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-S1C3-G |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 37 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Botwood Seaplane Base, NL -
 Canada
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Botwood Seaplane Base, NL |
| Shannon Airport (SNN/EINN) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Porpoised and crashed on takeoff.
The flying boat operated on a flight from New York's LaGuardia Marine Air Terminal to Shannon, Ireland with an en route stop at Botwood, Canada.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Inadvertent actuation of the wing flaps to the full 35° down position during the take-off run, thereby rendering the aircraft excessively nose-heavy and uncontrollable.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB report
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