ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336837
Date: | Thursday 27 November 1947 |
Time: | 03:17 |
Type: | Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Columbia Air Cargo |
Registration: | NC95486 |
MSN: | 6065 |
Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
Total airframe hrs: | 3756 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 13 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Yakutat, AK -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Anchorage-Merrill Field, AK (MRI/PAMR) |
Destination airport: | Yakutat Airport, AK (YAK/PAYA) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The flight departed from Anchorage at 00:20. At 02:38 the flight reported that it was over Yakataga, at 6,000 feet, and that it was proceeding in accordance with instrument flight rules to Yakutat, estimating arrival there at 03:20. Twenty-eight minutes later the flight called Yakutat Radio, stating that it was leaving the 6,000-foot altitude and making a straight in approach. The crew received Yakutat weather: Indefinite ceiling, 500-foot overcast visibility 3 miles, light drizzle, temperature and dew point 43 degrees, wind from the east-southeast at 10 miles per hour, altimeter setting 30.17. Yakutat Radio again called the flight at approximately 03:16, requesting that it report the height of the ceiling when it descended into the clear. Nothing more was heard from the flight. The DC-3 descended until the left wing struck a 140-foot spruce tree one mile distant and on a bearing of 70 degrees from the CAA Yakutat Radio station. The airplane crashed and caught fire.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Failure to follow the approved instrument approach procedures while making an initial approach to Yakutat at an altitude insufficient to clear trees along the flight path."
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:
Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 47)
CAB File No. 1-0100-47
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