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On March 5, 1998, Flight 8315, a Cessna 208 Caravan leased from FedEx, departed on a cargo flight from Memphis en route to Bowling Green when radar and radio contact was lost. The plane crashed about 8.8 miles SE of Clarksville on a ridge on the northern side of a valley. The pilot, who was the aircraft's only occupant, was killed.
The crew members were sent to hospital for minor injuries, and were later released. Both returned to flying with FedEx Express a month later. Overview of the accident site. The NTSB issued nine safety recommendations as a result of the crash, including recommendations to prevent in-flight icing. [6]
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The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F built in 1972 as a DC-10 passenger aircraft, and was first delivered to United Airlines and operated for the airline until FedEx purchased the aircraft on August 21, 1997. It was later converted to cargo configuration on July 3, 1999, and upgraded to an MD-10 on November 2, 2003.
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The plane was later sold, and FedEx took delivery of the aircraft on 2 July 1998 of the now converted McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F and re-registered the aircraft to N364FE. The plane was equipped with three General Electric CF6-6D engines. [3] At the time of the accident, the aircraft had a total of approximately 65,375 flight hours. [4] [1]: 20
[10] [20] [21] The crash was FedEx's second fatal accident involving a jet aircraft, following the loss of a FedEx owned B747-249F that crashed February 18, 1989, near Kuala Lumpur, while still painted in the Flying Tigers livery after the acquisition of the Flying Tigers Line by FedEx in December 1988. This was the first fatal accident at ...