ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335380
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| Date: | Friday 10 April 1953 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed 18-56-23 Lodestar |
| Owner/operator: | Caribbean International Airways |
| Registration: | VP-JBC |
| MSN: | 18-2568 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 14 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Kingston Airport (KIN) -
 Jamaica
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Kingston Airport (KIN/MKJP) |
| Grand Cayman Island-Owen Roberts International Airport (GCM/MWCR) |
An engine failed on takeoff. The aircraft managed to climb to 100-200 feet before entering a slight banking turn. The Lodestar crashed into the sea.
The owner of Caribbean International Airways, Owen Roberts, was killed in the accident.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of the port engine which in turn was due to the cracking of the Accessory Drive Gear. Thereafter the disaster must be attributed to the failure of the pilot to take precautionary steps on hearing the back firing, which, so far as he knew, might or might not have been a warning of possible engine failure."
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