Date: | Wednesday 25 April 1951 |
Time: | 11:49 |
Type: | Douglas DC-4 |
Owner/operator: | Cubana de Aviación |
Registration: | CU-T188 |
MSN: | 10368 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Total airframe hrs: | 13218 hours |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 39 / Occupants: 39 |
Other fatalities: | 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | ca 1 km off Key West, FL -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA) |
Destination airport: | Havana-Rancho Boyeros Airport (HAV/MUHA) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The Cubana aircraft, on a flight from Miami to Havana, was in, or had just performed, a gentle left bank leveling out on the Havana heading of 197 degrees when it collided with a US Navy Beech SNB-1 Kansan (39939) at an altitude of 4000 feet. The Navy plane was on an instrument training flight out of Key West-NAS. The SNB crashed into the water just west of the Naval Station, but the DC-4 continued for some distance before commencing a left bank which became progressively steeper until the aircraft assumed a nose-down attitude, crashing into the ocean 1,7 miles from the point of the collision.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of the crews of both aircraft to maintain sufficient vigilance under VFR conditions to prevent a collision."
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:
CAB File No. F-104-51
ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest No.2, Circular 24-AN/21 (93-94)
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