- Date
- May 31, 1979
- Place
- St Louis, MO · ST LOUIS, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N640RConvair 640
- Status
- Completed · report July 18, 1979
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 136496
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0002 79/5/31 ST LOUIS,MO CONVAIR 640 CR- 0 0 1 NS/CTR REVENUE CARGO DOM AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 0230 N640R PX- 0 0 0 30, 8266 TOTAL HOURS, 39 DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - LAMBERT OPERATOR - ZANTOP INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION ST LOUIS,MO YPSILANTI,MI TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION FIRE OR EXPLOSION: ON GROUND STATIC: PARKED-ENGINES NOT OPERATING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: OTHER REMARKS- APU CONTAINING FUEL DROPPED DURING LOADING,CAUGHT FIRE & HEAT DAMAGED A/C.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N640R
- Reported as
- Convair 640
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Lambert
N640RRegistration cancelled Feb 5, 2010 · Convair 640Airframe modelConvair 640Engine modelRolls-Royce DART-542 series
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.