ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335301
Date: | Monday 3 August 1953 |
Time: | 02:28 |
Type: | Lockheed L-749A Constellation |
Owner/operator: | Air France |
Registration: | F-BAZS |
MSN: | 2628 |
Year of manufacture: | 1950 |
Total airframe hrs: | 10058 hours |
Engine model: | Wright R-3350 (749C18BD1) Cyclone |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 42 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 10 km off Fethiye -
Turkey
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Roma-Ciampino Airport (CIA/LIRA) |
Destination airport: | Beirut International Airport (BEY/OLBA) |
Investigating agency: | BEA |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The Constellation operated on a flight Paris-Rome-Beirut-Tehran. The flight departed Rome at 22:32 GMT bound for Beirut. At 02:10 the no. 3 engine broke away from the wing following violent vibration. Vibrations continued and altitude was lost. A forced ditching was carried out 6 miles from Fetiye point, 1,5 miles offshore.
The aircraft sank and was not salvaged. It was rediscovered by a Turkish Navy ship in 2018.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Failure in flight of a propeller blade resulting in the separation of no.3 engine from the aircraft and loss of control of no.4 engine. The cause of the blade fracture cannot be determined."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | BEA |
Report number: | Report f-zs530803 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 7 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest Circular 39-AN/34 (97-99)
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