ASN Aircraft accident Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster N9461R Lubbock International Airport, TX (LBB)
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Status:Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Date:Wednesday 18 January 1995
Time:09:03
Type:Silhouette image of generic C208 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster
Operator:Martinaire
Registration: N9461R
MSN: 208B0076
First flight: 1988
Total airframe hrs:3984
Engines: 1 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114
Crew:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Aircraft fate: Repaired
Location:near Lubbock International Airport, TX (LBB) (   United States of America)
Phase: Initial climb (ICL)
Nature:Cargo
Departure airport:Lubbock International Airport, TX (LBB/KLBB), United States of America
Destination airport:Midland International Airport, TX (MAF/KMAF), United States of America
Flightnumber: 817
Narrative:
On January 18, just after midnight a light rain started falling on the ramp at Lubbock (LBB) where the airplane N9461R was parked. The temperature was dropping steadily. By 05:19 the precipitation had turned to light rain, light snow, and fog. By 06:25 the rain stopped, and the light snow and fog continued until after the accident.
The pilot cleaned snow off the airplane. However, under the snow, 80% of the airplanes wing was covered with a coarse layer of ice from 1/16 inch (1,6 mm) to 3/16 inch (4,8 mm) thickness that was not removed. The airplane departed from runway 35L, intersection Foxtrot, at 09:01. During the instrument departure climbing turn, at 400 feet above the ground, the engine surged and lost power. The aircraft began to lose altitude and the pilot landed in a snow covered flat field of winter wheat. The engine was broken from its mounts and forced under the airplane on the pilot's side and the belly pod was crushed on first impact.

Probable Cause:

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's failure to remove ice from the airframe prior to takeoff. Factors were freezing rain the night before and the pilots' incomplete preflight inspection."

Accident investigation:

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Investigating agency: NTSB
Status: Investigation completed
Duration: 249 days (8 months)
Accident number: FTW95FA094
Download report: Final report

Classification:
Icing
Forced landing outside airport

Sources:
» NTSB


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Distance from Lubbock International Airport, TX to Midland International Airport, TX as the crow flies is 193 km (121 miles).
Accident location: Approximate; accuracy within a few kilometers.

This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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