| Date: | Wednesday 8 August 1956 |
| Time: | 05:05 |
| Type: |  Fairchild C-82A-20-FA Packet |
| Owner/operator: | Sky Spray |
| Registration: | N4832V |
| MSN: | 10070 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1946 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 1016 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-85 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Boca Raton Public Airport, FL (BCT) -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Miami-Masters Field, FL |
| Boca Raton Public Airport, FL (BCT/KBCT) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The C-82 Packet plane operated on spraying missions in Florida. It had just completed a low-level mission against an infestation of Mediterranean fruit fly and was being ferried back from Miami-Masters Field, FL to Boca Raton Public Airport, FL (BCT). At an altitude of 200 feet smoke began to appear from the no. 2 engine. The aircraft was in a banking turn at the time and subsequently plummeted to the ground bursting into flames, the pilot having lost control due to differential thrust while the aircraft was in a turning manoeuvre.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was loss of power on the left engine and the drag-induced effect of the unfeathered left, propeller, resulting in loss of directional control during an attempted go-around."
Sources:
NTSB
Fairchild C-82 Packet website / Simon Beck
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Images:
photo (c) Bill Larkins (CC:by-sa)
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