ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 324314
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| Date: | Monday 9 December 1996 |
| Time: | 18:03 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-1-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Emery Worldwide |
| Registration: | N75142 |
| MSN: | 9173 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 34124 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Boise Air Terminal (Gowen Field), ID (BOI) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Boise Air Terminal, ID (BOI/KBOI) |
| Salt Lake City International Airport, UT (SLC/KSLC) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Shortly after takeoff from runway 10L the crew reported they had the right engine on fire. They tried to return to runway 28L or R. The aircraft crashed right wing low, cartwheeled and burst into flames 0,5 mile short of the runway. Weather at the time included 9°C and winds of 110deg/10 knots winds.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A fire within the right engine compartment of undetermined cause and the pilot-in-command's failure to maintain airspeed above the aircraft's minimum control speed. A factor contributing to the accident was the dark night environmental conditions"
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photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Bremerton-Polacca Airport, WA (PWT); September 1995
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