Date: | Sunday 14 July 1996 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing E-3A Sentry (707-300B) |
Owner/operator: | NATO |
Registration: | LX-N90457 |
MSN: | 22852/969 |
Year of manufacture: | 1984 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D (TF33-100A) |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 16 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Préveza-Aktion Airport (PVK) -
Greece
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Preveza-Aktion Airport (PVK/LGPZ) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The pilot of a Boeing E-3A airborne early warning and control aircraft aborted the takeoff from Préveza-Aktion Airport (PVK), Greece when the pilot assumed that from the sounds that he heard that they had ingested birds.
The airplane could not be brought to a stop on the runway. It overran the runway end into the sea. It struck a sea wall, causing the fuselage to break.
Reportedly the takeoff was abandoned at a speed after V1 and it was said that there were no indications for bird ingestion.
Sources:
Flight International 4-10 June 1997 (44)
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Oberpfaffenhofen Airport (OBF/EDMO); November 1985
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