Date: | Saturday 10 March 1979 |
Time: | 17:52 |
Type: | Nord 262A-33 |
Owner/operator: | Swift Aire Lines |
Registration: | N418SA |
MSN: | 41 |
Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
Total airframe hrs: | 11300 hours |
Engine model: | Turbomeca Bastan VI-C1 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 3,5 km NW off Los Angeles International Airport, CA (LAX) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Los Angeles International Airport, CA (LAX/KLAX) |
Destination airport: | Santa Maria Airport, CA (KSMX) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:At 17:49 the flight took off from Los Angeles runway 24L. When the aircraft crossed the departure end of the runway, the right propeller was observed
slowing to a stop. As the aircraft crossed the shoreline, popping sounds were heard from the left engine, and the aircraft stopped climbing and turned north paralleling the shoreline. As the aircraft flew north along the shoreline, it descended in a wings-level attitude, it contacted the water smoothly, bounced twice, impacted the water in a nose down attitude, and sank almost immediately near Marina del Rey, about 500 metres off shore.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The flight crew's mismanagement of an emergency procedure following an autofeather of the right-hand propeller which resulted in their shutting down the remaining engine. Contributing to the accident was the unavailability of vital restart information to the crew."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | DCA79AA012 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 8 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB-AAR-79-13
Location
Images:
photo (c) Aviation Safety Network
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Colmar-Houssen Airport (CMR); June 1976
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