Narrative:
The DC-3 entered a spin after completing a turn at 2200 feet agl, recovered, entered a second spin and crashed. The wreckage was found with the gear and flaps fully extended and the elevator trim set in a full nose up position.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot-in-command (pic) failed to provide adequate supervision while training the co-pilot and allowed the aircraft to enter a stall/spin, then did not provide adequate remedial action to properly recover from the spin. Factors related to the accident were: use of excessive elevator trim, the pic's lack of training (in approaches to stalls) and lack of experience in the make/model of aircraft, and the co-pilot's lack of recent experience in the make/model of aircraft."
Loss of control
» NTSB
accident date: 22-05-1989
type: Douglas C-47A (DC-3)
registration: CF-IOC
| Status: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
| Date: | Monday 22 May 1989 |
| Time: | 10:45 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-25-DK (DC-3) |
| Operator: | Condor Enterprises Inc. |
| Registration: | N47CE |
| MSN: | 13456 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 17177 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-2000-7M2-D5 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Aircraft fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 8 km (5 mls) from De Kalb Airport, IL ( United States of America)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Aurora/Sugar Grove Airport, IL (AUZ/KARR), United States of America |
| Rockford (unknown airport), IL, United States of America |
The DC-3 entered a spin after completing a turn at 2200 feet agl, recovered, entered a second spin and crashed. The wreckage was found with the gear and flaps fully extended and the elevator trim set in a full nose up position.
Probable Cause:
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot-in-command (pic) failed to provide adequate supervision while training the co-pilot and allowed the aircraft to enter a stall/spin, then did not provide adequate remedial action to properly recover from the spin. Factors related to the accident were: use of excessive elevator trim, the pic's lack of training (in approaches to stalls) and lack of experience in the make/model of aircraft, and the co-pilot's lack of recent experience in the make/model of aircraft."
Accident investigation:
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Classification:
Flightcrew un(der)qualifiedLoss of control
Sources:
» ICAO Adrep Summary 2/91 (#15)» NTSB
Photos
accident date: 22-05-1989
type: Douglas C-47A (DC-3)
registration: CF-IOC
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