ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 332722
| Date: | Thursday 14 January 1965 |
| Time: | 12:08 |
| Type: |  Lockheed 18 Learstar I |
| Owner/operator: | Burroughs Corp. |
| Registration: | N512V |
| MSN: | 18-2580 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7877 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Detroit-Willow Run Airport, MI (YIP) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Detroit-Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI (DTW/KDTW) |
| Detroit-Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI (DTW/KDTW) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The Lodestar pilots were cleared for an approach to Detroit-Willow Run Airport runway 05R. While on final approach the crew indicated that they were going around. Immediately after pulling up the aircraft entered a steep left turn, pitching slightly nose down. The left wing of the airplane struck the ground 919 feet left of and 1900 feet beyond the end of the runway. The aircraft crashed and burned 474 feet further on.
Right flap cable failed during flap retraction. Crashed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A split-flap condition resulting from failure of the right flap retract cable caused by cable misalignment"
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
The Lockheed Twins / Peter J Marson
NTSB
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