ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334372
| Date: | Monday 28 October 1957 |
| Time: | 18:05 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-75-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Iberia |
| Registration: | EC-ACH |
| MSN: | 19332 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 21 / Occupants: 21 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Getafe -
 Spain
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Tangier Airport (TNG/GMTT) |
| Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD/LEMD) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
An intense fire erupted in the no. 1 engine while the aircraft was on a flight from Tangiers to Madrid. At 18:03 the crew contacted Paracuellos Area Control Centre asking for emergency entry clearance. A little later the no. 1 engine was seen falling from the plane. The aircraft lost height rapidly and crashed.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A fire produced by extraneous objects, which developed in the left nacelle. A different type of fire would have burned the wheel, the magneto couplings and the landing gear leg; fuel combustion alone would not have been sufficient to weaken so rapidly the engine support fittings."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 59-AN/54 (33-34)
Images:
photo (c) Gumersind Palomares; Barcelona Airport (BCN); 25 July 1952
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