ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333379
Date: | Thursday 1 March 1962 |
Time: | 10:08 |
Type: | Boeing 707-123B |
Owner/operator: | American Airlines |
Registration: | N7506A |
MSN: | 17633/12 |
Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
Total airframe hrs: | 8147 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D-1-MC6 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 95 / Occupants: 95 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Jamaica Bay, NY -
United States of America
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Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | New York-Idlewild International Airport, NY (IDL/KIDL) |
Destination airport: | Los Angeles International Airport, CA (LAX/KLAX) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The American Airlines Boeing 707, named "Flagship District of Columbia", was cleared for takeoff at 10:05 on a scheduled domestic non-stop IFR flight to Los Angeles, California. The aircraft carried out what appeared to be a normal takeoff, and lift-off was at 10:07 hours about 5000 ft down runway 31L. At 10:07:37 the aircraft started a gentle turn to the left approximately 8000 ft down the runway, at an altitude of 100 ft, and was established on a heading of 290° at 10:07:42. Straightening out from the turn, the aircraft continued to climb for several seconds on a heading of 290° and started a second turn to the left as instructed by Departure Control. These manoeuvres were in accordance with the noise abatement procedures then in effect for taking-off from runway 31L. Having started the second turn, the angle of bank increased until the aircraft rolled through 90° of bank at a peak altitude of about 1600 ft msl . It then entered an inverted, nose-low attitude and plunged earthward in a nearly vertical dive. It struck the earth in the shallow waters of Pumpkin Patch Channel of Jamaica Bay during low tide. Impact was at an angle of approximately 78° nose down on a magnetic heading of 300°. Fire broke out a few minutes later.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A rudder control system malfunction, producing yaw, sideslip, and roll leading to a loss of control from which recovery action was not effective."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Report number: | final report |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 10 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest No.14 Volume II, Circular 71-AN/63 (22-35)
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