- Date
- March 24, 1987, 20:45 local (Mar 25, 1987, 02:45 UTC)
- Place
- Dallas, TX
- Injuries
- 11 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N73107Convair CV-580
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 22235
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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Analysis
Metro flight airlines convair CV-580 attempted takeoff from runway 35L at the Dallas/fort worth airport (dfw) with crosswinds exceeding demonstrated capability of the aircraft. The takeoff attempt violated company limitations for crosswinds in the convair CV-580. During the takeoff roll the left wing became airborne and returned to the runway with sufficient force to allow the left propeller assembly to contact the runway causing separation of two propeller blades and loss of directional control. The aircraft departed the runway onto soft terrain causing the nose gear to collapse. The nose of the aircraft dropped and the aircraft came to rest on a connecting taxiway.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73107
- Reported as
- Convair CV-580
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8
- Airframe hours
- 64,429
- Engine
- Allison 501D13, 4,500 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 121
- Registered owner
- Metro Flight Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · March 16, 1987 · 17 hours before
- Departed
- DFW · Dallas, TX
- Destination
- GGG · Longview, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DFW · Dallas/Ft. Worth, runway 35L, 11,388 × 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
- 32
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 8,819 total · 1,127 in this make and model · 158 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 270° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DFW