ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335081
Date: | Tuesday 15 June 1954 |
Time: | 03:20 |
Type: | Douglas C-54G-1-DO (DC-4) |
Owner/operator: | Great Lakes Airlines (1) |
Registration: | N30070 |
MSN: | 35931 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Total airframe hrs: | 21923 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2000-9M4 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 82 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Gage Airport, OK (GAG) -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Kansas City Municipal Airport, MO (MKC/KMKC) |
Destination airport: | Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA (BUR/KBUR) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:An uncontrollable no. 3 engine fire forced the crew to carry out an off runway emergency landing. The aircraft burned out.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A bearing failure of the no.3 engine generator causing extreme frictional heat and the release of inflammable fluid which ignited in flight."
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:
ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 47-AN/42 (115-117)
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