ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 13572
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| Date: | Friday 21 March 1980 |
| Time: | 19:49 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain |
| Owner/operator: | Eagle Commuter Airlines Inc |
| Registration: | N59932 |
| MSN: | 31-7552046 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Houston William P Hobby Airport, Texas -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | William P Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas (HOU/KHOU) |
| Brownwood Regional Airport, Brownwood, Texas (BWD/KBWD) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
On March 21, 1980, at 19:49 hours local, Eagle Commuter Airlines, Inc., Flight 108, a PA-31-350, with ten persons on board: a pilot, a pilot-in-command trainee, and eight passengers, crashed on takeoff from runway 22 at William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas. The pilot, the pilot-in-command trainee, and five passengers were killed, and three passengers were injured seriously. The aircraft was destroyed by the crash and the post-crash fire.
The aircraft, which made a normal takeoff, was about 278 lb over its maximum weight. Passengers reported surging and popping noises from an engine when the aircraft was about 50 feet above the runway. The Crew reported to the tower controller they had lost the right engine. They also reported that the aircraft veered to the right. entered a shallow dive, and crashed on an airport parking ramp. During the crash sequence, the aircraft struck two other aircraft and four cars before hitting a hangar.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was a power loss in the right engine for undetermined reasons at a critical point in the takeoff phase, the aircraft's marginal single-engine performance capability, and the captain's immediate landing on the remaining runway, or to configure the aircraft properly for the engine-out incorrect emergency response to the engine power loss when he failed either to land condition.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: FTW80AA057 at https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=32426&key=0
2. FAA: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=59932
3. https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR8104.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 11-May-2015 09:25 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 11-May-2015 09:28 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
| 26-Sep-2017 17:28 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Source] |
| 26-Sep-2017 17:35 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Source] |
| 29-Oct-2019 17:56 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Location] |
| 10-Feb-2020 10:17 | harro | Updated [Source, Accident report, ] |
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