- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | April 01, 1956 |
Time: | 1920 |
Location: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Operator: | Trans World Airlines |
Flight #: | 400 |
Route: | Pittsburgh - Newark |
AC Type: | Martin 404 |
Registration: | N40403 |
cn / ln: | 14103 |
Aboard: | 36 (passengers:33 crew:3) |
Fatalities: | 22 (passengers:21 crew:1) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The aircraft yawed to the left and crashed shortly after takeoff after a fire warning occurred on the No.1 engine. The cause of the fire warning was a failed exhaust connector clamp in the left engine, which triggered an adjacent fire detecting unit. A windmilling left propeller, the extended landing gear, and the takeoff flaps produced sufficient drag to make the airplane lose altitude and strike the ground. An uncoordinated emergency action in a very short time available to the crew, which produced an aircraft configuration with insurmountable drag. |
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