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) |
Destination airport: | Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD/LEMD) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative: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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