Date: | Friday 14 February 1947 |
Time: | 04:20 |
Type: | Curtiss C-46E-1-CS Commando |
Owner/operator: | Slick Airways |
Registration: | NC59486 |
MSN: | 2944 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Total airframe hrs: | 2418 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-75 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Denver, CO -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Omaha-Eppley Airfield, NE (OMA/KOMA) |
Destination airport: | Denver-Stapleton International Airport, CO (DEN/KDEN) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The Curtiss Commando departed Chicago for a flight to Denver. An refueling stop was made at Omaha from where it departed at 01:39 on a contact flight plan to Denver at 8,000 feet. At 04:14, the crew reported over the Watkins Fan Marker, 14 miles east of the Stapleton Airport, and requested permission to make a practice approach on the ILS, which was approved. The C-46 contacted the ground and crashed on the up-slope of a slight hill 218 feet past the middle marker antenna pole of the ILS and 3232 feet from the end of runway 21.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the momentary loss of control or overcontrol by the pilot at a critically low altitude in the final stages of an ILS approach. A contributing factor was the failure of the safety pilot to remain alert to the altitude of the aircraft."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Report number: | final report |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
CAB File No. 1-0034-47
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