ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 332333
Date: | Thursday 28 July 1966 |
Time: | 08:50 |
Type: | Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando |
Owner/operator: | Zantop Air Transport |
Registration: | N9905F |
MSN: | 30316 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Port Elizabeth, NJ -
United States of America
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Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Newark International Airport, NJ (EWR/KEWR) |
Destination airport: | |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The no. 1 engine failed at a height of 200 feet after takeoff from runway 22. The crew attempted to return to the airport, but were forced to make a wheels up landing on a salt flat.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "1) Powerplant structure: master and connecting rods, piston rings - material failure.; 2) Dispatching: dispatched flight overweight; 3) Operational supervisory personnel: deficiency company service, regulations."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | NYC67A0019 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB File #1-0051
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