Accident Douglas C-47A-25-DK (DC-3) N47CE,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 326309

Date:	Monday 22 May 1989
Time:	10:45
Type:	Douglas C-47A-25-DK (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Condor Enterprises Inc.
Registration:	N47CE
MSN:	13456
Year of manufacture:	1944
Total airframe hrs:	17177 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-2000-7M2-D5
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	8 km from De Kalb Airport, IL - United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Aurora/Sugar Grove Airport, IL (AUZ/KARR)
Destination airport:	Rockford (unknown airport), IL
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

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."

Accident investigation: