ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333963
Date: | Monday 3 August 1959 |
Time: | 10:30 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-30-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Kalinga Airlines |
Registration: | VT-DGP |
MSN: | 9549 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Sagone -
India
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Mohanbari Airport (VEMN) |
Destination airport: | Along Airport (IXV/VEAN) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The DC-3 departed Mohanbari at 10:17 for a twenty minute VMC flight to Along. Last radio contact was at 10:28.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was attributed to an error of navigation on the part of the pilot. He entered a wrong valley and without proper assessment of the performance of his fully-loaded aircraft in the space available attempted to make a steep insufficient to effect a recovery from the stall."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest Circular 62-AN/57 (159-163)
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