ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334223
Date: | Sunday 8 June 1958 |
Time: | 08:16 |
Type: | Lockheed 414-56 Hudson IIIA |
Owner/operator: | Adastra Airways |
Registration: | VH-AGG |
MSN: | 6486 |
Engine model: | Wright R-1820-G205A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 0,3 km SE of Lae Airfield -
Papua New Guinea
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Survey |
Departure airport: | Lae Airfield |
Destination airport: | Lae Airfield |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The Lockheed Hudson departed Lae at 07:06 for a photographic survey flight to Wewak. At 07:51 the flight advised that weather conditions were unfavourable and that the aircraft was returning to Lae.
Contact was made with Lae Tower at 08:09 and the flight received landing instructions: "Runway 32 wind 300° at 15 knots gusting to 20 knots.
When turning onto base leg, the pilot radioed that he would carry out a practice asymmetric landing.
At 08:16 the controller notice the aircraft in what appeared to be a stalled condition with port wing low in a nose down left hand turn. Power was then applied to the no.2 (right hand) engine. The aircraft partially rolled to the left and entered the water left wing first.
CAUSE: "Loss of control for reasons which can not be determined."
Sources:
DCA Aircraft Accident Report
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