ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333778
| Date: | Monday 23 May 1960 |
| Time: | 11:52 |
| Type: |  Convair CV-880-22-1 |
| Owner/operator: | Delta Air Lines |
| Registration: | N8804E |
| MSN: | 22-00-16 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1960 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Atlanta Airport, GA (ATL) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Atlanta Municipal Airport, GA (ATL/KATL) |
| Atlanta Municipal Airport, GA (ATL/KATL) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Shortly after lift-off, the aircraft assumed a nose high attitude, banked steeply to the left and crashed nose down.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The aircraft was stalled, for reasons undetermined, at an altitude too low to effect recovery."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
WCAA 2nd ed. / C.Y. Kimura
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