Accident Boeing 737-301 N360WA, Wednesday 30 March 2011

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Date:	Wednesday 30 March 2011
Time:	17:30 LT
Type:	Boeing 737-301
Owner/operator:	Northern Air Cargo
Registration:	N360WA
MSN:	23553/1406
Year of manufacture:	1987
Total airframe hrs:	50924 hours
Engine model:	CFMI CFM56-3B2
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	Dayton, Ohio - United States of America
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:	Dayton-James Cox Dayton International Airport, OH (DAY/KDAY)
Destination airport:	Laredo International Airport, TX (LRD/KLRD)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The cargo airplane departed on a positioning flight with an unsecured pallet jack in the empty cargo hold. During the flight, the pallet jack moved and damaged a fuselage structural frame. The flightcrew reported that they both looked in the cargo hold prior to the flight, but did not check the security of the pallet jack.

Probable Cause: The flightcrew's inadequate preflight inspection, resulting in in-flight structural damage to the airplane's fuselage from an unsecured pallet jack that was located in the airplane's empty cargo hold.

Accident investigation: