- Date
- May 24, 1988, 14:54 local (19:54 UTC)
- Place
- Lawton, OK
- Injuries
- 2 serious, 6 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N65DAEmbraer EMB-110P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Case key
- 15899
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
None submitted
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The number 1 (left) engine failed during the takeoff from runway 35. It was reported that the aircraft yawed sharply left and climbed to between 50 and 100 feet AGL before it began losing alt. The aircraft struck the ground and continued to move forward on the ground several hundred feet until it struck the airport perimeter fence. The aircraft came to rest 1,600 feet west of the runway, on a heading of 290 degrees. A post-crash fire destroyed the cargo area of the aircraft. Examination of the no. 1 engine revealed a compressor turbine blade airfoil separation. Disassembly of the propeller on the no. 1 engine indicated that the propeller had autofeathered normally after the engine failed. The captain reportedly made the takeoff.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65DA
- Reported as
- Embraer EMB-110P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 110389
- Airframe hours
- 13,005
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-34, 750 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Atlantic Southeast Airlines
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · May 11, 1988 · 84 hours before
- Destination
- DFW · Fort Worth, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- LAW · Lawton Munic, runway 35, 8,600 × 150 ft, concrete
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 31
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,333 total · 483 in this make and model · 1,883 as pilot in command · 294 in the last 90 days · 85 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 10 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LAW