ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336341
Date: | Saturday 27 August 1949 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47B-5-DK (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Sabena |
Registration: | OO-CBK |
MSN: | 26045/14600 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 20 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Léopoldville -
Congo (Democratic Republic)
|
Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Léopoldville-N'Djili Airport (FIH/FZAA) |
Destination airport: | Elizabethville Airport (FBM/FZQA) |
Narrative:The DC-3 did not achieve the desired climbing rate after takeoff and crashed when making a flat turn to the right at low altitude.
The plane was on a flight from Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) to Elizabethville (now Lubumbashi).
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Power loss on takeoff due to 1) Water in the fuel tanks; 2) Abnormal deposit of lead on the spark plugs."
Sources:
Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 50)
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