ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 329049
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Date: | Wednesday 24 August 1977 |
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Type: | Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando |
Owner/operator: | Quarterwinds Aviation |
Registration: | N74689 |
MSN: | 32975 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | off Goyave -
Guadeloupe
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Dominica-Melville Hall Airport (DOM/TDPD) |
Destination airport: | Saint Croix-Alexander Hamilton Airport (STX/TISX) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The aircraft was carrying oranges and bananas from Dominica to Saint Croix when the no. 1 engine misfired. The engine was throttled back and stopped a short while later. A drop in oil pressure then forced the pilot to reduce power on the remaining engine. The aircraft started to descent and was ditched offshore.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Engine failure with low oil pressure. Failure of the second engine consequent on a prolonged increase in power, necessitated by the failure of the first engine. The proximity of the coast and the presence of a DC-3 in flight ensured a favourable outcome, whilst the pilot had made a perfect ditching."
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16 September 1951 |
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Peninsular Air Transport |
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Chicago-Midway Airport, IL (MDW) |
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Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Miami International Airport, FL (MIA); May 1974
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