Accident Douglas DC-3A-S1C3G N23WT,

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 324434

Date:	Thursday 20 June 1996
Time:	14:08
Type:	Douglas DC-3A-S1C3G
Owner/operator:	Loren Davis Ministries International
Registration:	N23WT
MSN:	11650
Year of manufacture:	1943
Total airframe hrs:	51307 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Cut and Shoot, TX - United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Conroe-Montgomery County Airport, TX (CXO/KCXO)
Destination airport:	Conroe-Montgomery County Airport, TX (CXO/KCXO)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The DC-3 was on a training flight when, at initial climb the co-pilot called for METO (maximum except takeoff) power. After the pilot-in-command set METO power, the left engine lost power. and the PIC took over control and called for the co-pilot to feather the no. 1 propeller, but the co-pilot didn't hear this call
At 90 knots airspeed and wings level, the airplane struck the top of a 55 foot tall hickory tree approximately 3,960 feet from the departure end of runway 14 and struck a trailer roof, trees, a small pickup truck, and power lines before coming to rest upright in a residential front yard 337 feet from the initial impact point.
The cockpit area and main fuselage burnt out.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The flight instructors failure to use the single engine best angle of climb airspeed resulting in a loss of control of the aircraft. Factors were the loss of power to the left engine for undetermined reasons, the flight instructor not being qualified to be pilot in-command in the DC-3, his lack of recent experience in the DC-3, and the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing."

Accident investigation: