Date: | Friday 4 April 1997 |
Time: | 00:16 |
Type: | Aviation Traders ATL-98 Carvair |
Owner/operator: | Custom Air Service |
Registration: | N83FA |
MSN: | 5/10365 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Total airframe hrs: | 50558 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2000-7M2 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Griffin-Spalding County Airport, GA -
United States of America
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Griffin-Spalding County Airport, GA |
Destination airport: | Americus-Souther Field Airport, GA (KACJ) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:An IFR flight plan was filed by the crew for a flight to Americus, GA to pick up a load of automobile parts for transfer to Rockford, IL.
During the airplane's takeoff roll on runway 14, a witness noted that the color of the no. 1 engine exhaust flame changed from blue to yellow, accompanied by an audible change in the engine power level. The nose of the airplane yawed left and the left wing dipped. This occurred when the airplane was about 3/4 down the 3,700 foot runway. The Carvair overran the runway, ran across Zebulon Road and slammed into the vacant Piggly Wiggly building near the Spalding Square parking lot and caught fire.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The flight crew's inadequate procedures, during a rejected takeoff following a possible engine malfunction at a critical time in the takeoff, and the second pilot's physical impairment. "
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | ATL97FA057 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 2 years |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB Identification: ATL97FA057
Cargo Airplane Strikes Building During Rejected Takeoff
Location
Images:
photo (c) Ryan Hales
photo (c) Kenneth M. Mooney; Griffin-Spalding County Airport, GA; 1995
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