| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | February 17, 1991 |
| Time: | 0020 |
| Location: | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Operator: | Ryan International Airlines |
| Flight #: | 590 |
| Route: | Cleveland - Indianapolis |
| AC Type: | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15RC |
| Registration: | N565PC |
| cn / ln: | 47240/346 |
| Aboard: | 2 (passengers:0 crew:2) |
| Fatalities: | 2 (passengers:0 crew:2) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The cargo plane stalled during takeoff cart wheeled and crashed. The failure of the flight crew to detect and remove ice contamination on the airplane's wings, which was largely a result of a lack of appropriate response by the Federal Aviation Administration, Douglas Aircraft Company, and Ryan International Airlines to the known effect that a minute amount of contamination has on the stall characteristics of the DC-9 series 10 airplane. The ice contamination led to wing stall and loss of control during the attempted takeoff. |
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