Fine Air Flight 101
| Fine Air Flight 101 | |
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,_Fine_Air_AN0174898.jpg) A Fine Air DC-8 similar to the casualty |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Stall after takeoff |
| place | Miami International Airport |
| date | August 7, 1997 |
| Fatalities | 4 + 1 on the ground |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Douglas DC-8-61F |
| operator | Fine Air |
| Mark | N27UA |
| Departure airport | Miami International Airport |
| Destination airport | Santo Domingo Airport |
| Passengers | 1 |
| crew | 3 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On August 7, 1997, a Douglas DC-8-61F crashed on Fine Air Flight 101 shortly after taking off from Miami Airport . All four crew members and one person on the ground were killed in the accident.
plane
The US Fine Air aircraft was a Douglas DC-8-61 converted into a freighter, which was 29 years old at the time of the accident. The cargo flight was supposed to be done with the DC-8 with the registration number N30UA , but due to a delay a different DC-8 (N27UA) was used. The DC-8 was loaded from 10:30 a.m. This process ended at 12:06 p.m.
course
At 12:35 p.m., Flight 101 began taking off from runway 27R (now 26L). Shortly before the take-off speed was reached, there was a thud and after the take-off there was another. The nose of the DC-8 was jerked up and stalled . The pilots tried to push the nose of the machine down, but then it was yanked up again and there was another stall. The machine fell nose up on 72nd Avenue and slid into a store. Everyone on board and one person on the ground died.
Cause of accident
The investigations revealed that the DC-8 was loaded incorrectly and therefore the center of gravity was too far back.
Media reception
The accident was entitled Deadly inclination ( Deadly pitch ) in Episode 3 of Season 19 of Mayday - alarm in the cockpit filmed.
Others
- National Air Cargo Flight 102 , on which a Boeing 747 crashed due to the cargo slipping. (2013)