Accident Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation N74CA,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328311

Date:	Sunday 22 June 1980
Time:	13:59
Type:	Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation
Owner/operator:	Air Traders International
Registration:	N74CA
MSN:	4850
Year of manufacture:	1959
Engine model:	Wright R-3350-42
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 8
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	1,4 km SW of Columbus Municipal Airport, IN (CLU) - United States of America
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:	Columbus Municipal Airport, IN (CLU/KBAK)
Destination airport:	Seattle/Tacoma International Airport, WA (SEA/KSEA)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The aircraft crashed into a soybean field shortly after takeoff from runway 22.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The flight crew's inadequate and uncoordinated response to the No 2 engine fire warning. The flight engineer failed to correct a gradual power decay on the other engines which occurred while he was retarding the No 2 engine throttle, and the power decay went uncorrected by the pilot and co-pilot. The lack of co-ordination and the lack of corrective action may have been caused by the lack of recent flight crew experience in the L-1049 aircraft.
Contributing to the accident was the aircraft's over maximum take-off weight, the crew's use of less than full power for take-off, and the use of less than take-off cowl flaps which precluded adequate engine cooling."

Accident investigation: