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- Code Number:
- TAFV40P06_08
- Title:
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N7506A, Boeing 707-123B, American Airlines AAL, Astrojet, JT3D-1-MC6, JT3D, 1959
- CN: 17633
LN: 12
First flight: 1959
Total airframe hrs: 8147
Engines: 4x Pratt & Whitney JT3D-1-MC6
crashed Jamaica Bay, NY on takeoff from JFK
Accident report:
Status: Final
Date: 01/03/1962
Time: 10:08:49
Crew: Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Passengers: Fatalities: 87 / Occupants: 87
Total: Fatalities: 95 / Occupants: 95
Airplane damage: Written off
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Jamaica Bay, NY USA
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: New York-Idlewild International Airport, NY (IDL) (IDL/KIDL), USA
Destination airport: Los Angeles International Airport, California (LAX) (LAX/KLAX), USA
Flight number: 1
Narrative:
At 10:05 American Flight 1 was cleared for take-off from runway 31L on a scheduled domestic non-stop IFR flight to Los Angeles. The aircraft carried out what appeared to be a normal take-off, and Lift-off was at 10:07 hours about 5000 feet down runway 31L. At 10:07:37 the aircraft started a gentle turn to the left approximately 8000 feet down the runway, at an altitude of 100 feet, and was established on a heading of 290? at 10:07:42. Straightening out from the turn, the aircraft continued to climb for several seconds on a heading of 290 and started a second turn to the left as instructed by Departure Control. These manoeuvres were in accordance with the noise abatement procedures then in effect for taking-off from runway 31L. Having started the second turn, the angle of bank increased until the aircraft rolled through 90? of bank at a peak altitude of about 1600 feet msl. It then entered an inverted, nose-low attitude and plunged earthward in a nearly vertical dive. It struck the earth in the shallow waters of Pumpkin Patch Channel of Jamaica Bay during low tide. Impact was at an angle of approximately 78? nose down on a magnetic heading of 300. Fire broke out a few minutes later.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A rudder control system malfunction, producing yaw, sideslip, and roll leading to a loss of control from which recovery action was not effective." (CAB)
Source: ICAO Accident Digest No.14 Volume II, Circular 71-AN/63 (22-35)
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