Date: | Saturday 16 February 1963 |
Time: | 18:26 |
Type: | Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando |
Owner/operator: | Zantop Air Transport |
Registration: | N616Z |
MSN: | 22590 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Total airframe hrs: | 17683 hours |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Puyallup, WA -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Tacoma-McChord AFB, WA (TCM/KTCM) |
Destination airport: | Great Falls-Malmstrom AFB, MT (GFA/KGFA) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The no. 1 engine failed, 7 minutes after departure from McChord AFB. Attempts to feather the propeller failed. During the diversion to Thunfield the prop intermittently oversped.
The plane came in high, so a go-around was initiated. At a height of 200 feet the prop oversped and the aircraft apparently stalled. It struck the ground left-wingtip-first and nose-low.
It appeared that a the throttle control rod that connects the throttle arm to the jack shaft at the carburetor control arm had separated.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The improper handling of an emergency situation, precipitated by a mechanical malfunction, which resulted in an unsuccessful single-engine go-around. A contributing factor was the failure of Radar Approach Control to provide complete and accurate airfield data to the pilot."
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 Accident Report File No.1-0004
ICAO Accident Digest No.15 - Volume I, Circular 78-AN/66 (21-26)
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