ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334429
Date: | Friday 16 August 1957 |
Time: | |
Type: | Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation |
Owner/operator: | Varig |
Registration: | PP-VDA |
MSN: | 4610 |
Year of manufacture: | 1955 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 11 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 0,5 km off Cabarete -
Dominican Republic
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Ciudad Trujillo-General Andrews International Airport (SDQ/MDSD) |
Destination airport: | Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The aircraft arrived at Ciudad Trujillo on the morning of 16 August with the no. 2 engine inoperative. It was decided to continue to New York via Miami on just three engines. Carrying only the crew, the Super Constellation took off at 15:16 GMT with the no. 2 propeller feathered. Some 50 minutes later, the no. 4 prop oversped. The flight crew were not able to control or feather the propeller and ultimately the prop tore free and damaged the no. 3 propeller as it parted. The no. 3 prop was feathered; only the no. 1 engine remained operative now. Ciudad Trujillo could not be reached, forcing the crew to ditch the aircraft parallel to the coast at about 500 m offshore. The aircraft sank to a depth of about 40 feet.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Due to the fact that three of its engines were inoperative, the aircraft had to be ditched in the sea."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest No.9, Circular 56-AN/51 (152-153)
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