ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334523
| Date: | Wednesday 13 March 1957 |
| Time: | 09:15 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-25-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Indian Airlines |
| Registration: | VT-CFB |
| MSN: | 13626 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Kingsway Camp -
 India
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Delhi-Safdarjung Airport (VIDD) |
| Delhi-Safdarjung Airport (VIDD) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The DC-3 took off from Safdarjung at 08:32 for a local training flight. This was the 1st flight in a series of 8 to train a captain as a flight instructor. During one of a series of manoeuvres, an approach to stall, the aircraft entered a spin. Partial recovery was made, but the plane was already too close to the ground and crashed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was attributed to loss of control of the aircraft as a result of a spin, inadvertently entered into at a height too low for recovery."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 59-AN/54 (9-11)
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