ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 341324
Date: | Saturday 3 October 1942 |
Time: | 19:05 |
Type: | Vought-Sikorsky VS-44 |
Owner/operator: | American Export Airlines |
Registration: | NC41880 |
MSN: | 4401 |
Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-S1C3-G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 37 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Botwood Seaplane Base, NL -
Canada
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Botwood Seaplane Base, NL |
Destination airport: | Shannon Airport (SNN/EINN) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Porpoised and crashed on takeoff.
The flying boat operated on a flight from New York's LaGuardia Marine Air Terminal to Shannon, Ireland with an en route stop at Botwood, Canada.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Inadvertent actuation of the wing flaps to the full 35° down position during the take-off run, thereby rendering the aircraft excessively nose-heavy and uncontrollable.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Report number: | final report |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
CAB report
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