VARIG aircraft accident near Cabarete
| VARIG aircraft accident near Cabarete | |
|---|---|
 A Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation machine |
|
| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Ditching after multiple engine failures |
| place |
Atlantic Ocean , 0.5 km off the coast of Cabarete , Dominican Republic
|
| date | August 16, 1957 |
| Fatalities | 1 |
| Survivors | 10 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation
|
| operator |
.svg){kind=small} VARIG
|
| Mark |
PP-VDA
|
| Departure airport |
Ciudad Trujillo Airport , Dominican Republic
|
| Stopover |
Miami International Airport , Florida , United States
|
| Destination airport |
New York Idlewild International Airport , New York , United States
|
| Passengers | 0 |
| crew | 11 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The VARIG aircraft accident near Cabarete occurred on August 16, 1957. On that day, a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation of the VARIG , which was to be flown from the Dominican Republic to the USA for maintenance , had to ditch in the Atlantic Ocean due to a triple engine failure become. One crew member was killed in the accident.
machine
The machine that crashed was a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation built in 1955 with the factory number 4610 . The machine was handed over to VARIG and approved by them with the aircraft registration PP-VDA . The four-engine long - haul aircraft was equipped with four air-cooled 18-cylinder twin star engines of the Curtiss-Wright R-3350 type.
The machine was one of three of this type with which VARIG had started air traffic to the USA . The aircraft model was known for its fragile propeller engines, which frequently failed. The Lockheed Super Constellation was therefore jokingly referred to as "the best three-engine airplane in the world".
Inmates
Since it was a transfer flight, there was only a crew of eleven on board the machine.
the accident
On the morning of August 16, 1957, the machine arrived in Ciudad Trujillo as a passenger flight with a defective engine No. 2. It was then decided that all passengers disembark and the machine would be flown to New York with a stopover in Miami . For take-off, the propeller of the defective engine No. 2 was brought into the sail position, the machine took off at 3:16 p.m.
About 50 minutes after take-off, engine no. 4 over-revved. The engine could then neither be checked, nor could the propeller be brought into the sail position. The propeller finally tore off and damaged the propeller of engine no. 3, which then had to be brought into the sail position. With only one engine in operation, it was no longer possible to maintain the flight altitude or to head for a nearby airport. The crew barely managed to reach the north coast of the island of Hispaniola . It was decided to make an emergency landing. An emergency landing on Cabarete Beach was initially attempted, but the attempt had to be abandoned because the stretch of beach in this area was too narrow for an emergency landing and there were trees nearby. Finally the decision was made to ditch it. The machine was placed on the water in the water at a distance of 500 meters from the mainland parallel to the beach. One crew member was killed during the ditching, the other 10 occupants survived.
swell
- Accident report L-1049, PP-VDA , Aviation Safety Network
- Crash of a Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation off Cabarete: 1 killed , B3A - Bureau of Aircraft Accident Archives
- ICAO Circular 56-AN / 51, pp. 152-153 , ICAO
Individual evidence
- ↑ operating history of the machine , rzjets.net
- ↑ Lockheed L1049G "Super G Constellation" 1955-1967 , varig-airlines.com
- ↑ https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article201235776/Lockheed-L-1649A-Super-Star-Warum-das-schoenste-Flugzeug-nicht-mehr-fliegt.html
- ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/luftfahrtlegende-a-949182.html