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- Code Number:
- TACV02P03_17
- Title:
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N5523, Lockheed L-188AF Electra
- CN: 1034
First flight: 1959 Total airframe hrs: 35668 Cycles: 38353 Accident Report: Status: Final Date: 30/05/1984 Time: 01:44 EDT Operator: Zantop International Airlines Engines: 4 Allison 501-D13 Crew: Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 Passengers: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 Total: Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 Airplane damage: Destroyed Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: Chalkhill, Pennsylvania (USA) Phase: En route (ENR) Nature: Air Cargo Departure airport: Baltimore/Washington International Airport, Maryland (BWI) (BWI/KBWI), USA Destination airport: Detroit-Willow Run Airport, Michigan (YIP) (YIP/KYIP), USA Flight number: 931 Narrative: Zantop ground personnel completed the loading of Flight 931 at 00:40. All cargo was bulk loaded and tied down on the right side of the airplane for the full length of the cargo compartment. Flight 931 departed the gate at Baltimore/Washington International Airport at 01:05 and took off on runway 28 at 01:10. At 01:11:42, Flight 931 contacted Baltimore departure control and was cleared to 13,000 feet. After switching to Washington ARTCC, the flight was cleared further FL220. At 01:32 a no. 2 gyro malfunction made the crew select the no. 1 gyro to drive both approach horizons and the problem appeared resolved. At 01:43:09, Cleveland ARTCC cleared Flight 931 direct to the Dryer VOR. After the turn to the Dryer VOR, the first officer?s approach horizon may have displayed incorrect pitch and roll information. The flight crew may have received conflicting pitch and roll information from the two approach horizons as they attempted to recover from an unusual attitude. The flight crew overstressed the airplane in an attempt to recover from the unusual attitude as the aircraft spiralled down. The turboprop aircraft broke up and falling wreckage damaged some houses; however, most of the wreckage fell in uninhabited, wooded areas.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The aircraft's entry into an unusual attitude and the inability of the flight crew to analyse the flight condition before there was a complete loss of control. Although the precise reason for the loss of control was not identified, an undetermined failure of a component in the No.2 vertical gyro system, perhaps involving the amplifier and associated circuitry, probably contributed to the cause of the accident by incorrectly processing data to the co-pilot's approach horizon. The in-flight structural failure of the aircraft was due to overload."
Follow-up / safety actions: As a result of this accident, the Safety Board reiterated Safety Recommendation A-80-19 to the Federal Aviation Administration, as follows: Amend 14 CFR 121.305(j) to extend its application to all large turboprop aircraft to require an additional attitude-indicating instrument, for bank and pitch, operating from a source of power independent of the normal electrical generating system as is now required on all large turbojet aircraft. The FAA this time agreed with the recommendation, but it lasted seven years before the FAA issued a final rule amendening 14 CFR 121.305 effective October 15, 1992.
Sources: NTSB-AAR/85-04
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