Date: | Thursday 5 January 2006 |
Time: | 17:04 |
Type: | Douglas C-54G (DC-4) |
Owner/operator: | Buffalo Airways |
Registration: | C-GXKN |
MSN: | 36090 |
Year of manufacture: | 1946 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2000-7M2 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Norman Wells Airport, NT (YVQ) -
Canada
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Norman Wells Airport, NT (YVQ/CYVQ) |
Destination airport: | Yellowknife Airport, NT (YZF/CYZF) |
Investigating agency: | TSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The C-54 departed Norman Wells at 16:52. Six minutes later, the crew declared an emergency due to a fire in the number 2 engine. The no. 2 engine quit and the crew tried to extinguish the fire by activating the fire bottles. This did not extinguish the fire. They feathered the no. 2 propeller and simultaneously the no. 1 propeller feathered. The crew decided to perform an off-field forced landing, but then the engine fire extinguished. They made it back to Norman Wells where an emergency landing on two engines was carried out. The aircraft departed the runway and came to a halt in deep snow some 60 feet from the edge of the runway.
Findings as to Causes and Contributing Factors:
1. Airworthiness Directive AD 48-12-01 mandates the replacement of the potentially hazardous fuel line, but the line had not been replaced on this aircraft.
2. A fuel leak from the main fuel inlet line in the engine compartment of this cargo DC-4 caused an in-flight fire that spread into the nacelle and wing.
3. The fuel-fed fire burned for an extended period of time because turning the fuel selector off is not required as part of the primary Engine Fire Checklist.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | TSB |
Report number: | TSB Report A06W0002 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 1 year 1 month |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
CADORS Number: 2006C0041
Location
Images:
photo (c) Peter Taylor, via Anson Chappell; Norman Wells Airport, NT (YVQ); 06 January 2001; (CC:by-nc-nd)
photo (c) Peter Taylor, via Anson Chappell; Norman Wells Airport, NT (YVQ); 06 January 2001; (CC:by-nc-nd)
photo (c) Peter Taylor, via Anson Chappell; Norman Wells Airport, NT (YVQ); 06 January 2001; (CC:by-nc-nd)
photo (c) Peter Taylor, via Anson Chappell; Norman Wells Airport, NT (YVQ); 06 January 2001; (CC:by-nc-nd)
photo (c) Dirk Septer; Hay River Airport, NT (YHY/CYHY); 16 July 2009
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