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The aircraft was a twin-turboprop Convair CV-580 Airtanker, serial number 129, registered C-FKFY, manufactured in 1953. It was equipped with a fire retardant tank and other standard equipment, but did not carry a cockpit voice recorder, flight data recorder, or a stall warning device.
Partnair Flight 394 was a chartered flight that crashed on 8 September 1989 off the coast of Denmark, 18 kilometres (11 mi; 10 nmi) north of Hirtshals.All fifty passengers and five crew members on board the aircraft died, making this the deadliest disaster in Danish aviation history. [1]
The cause of the crash was fuel starvation as a result of improper fuel cross-feed application. [86] September 1, 2008: An Air Tahoma CV-580 freighter (N587X) conducting its first flight following a maintenance "C" Check, crashed in Pickaway County, Ohio, immediately after departure from Columbus's Rickenbacker International Airport. The crew ...
Allegheny Airlines Flight 737 was a Convair CV-580 (aircraft registration N5825), [2] that crashed while attempting to land at Bradford Regional Airport in Bradford, Pennsylvania on January 6, 1969. Eleven of the 28 occupants on board were killed.
The flight, a Convair CV-580, departed Green Bay at around 10:30 a.m. CDT, proceeding to Oshkosh under visual flight rules (VFR). At 10:36:11 a.m. CDT, the air traffic controller at Oshkosh cleared Flight 290 to land. The flight crew's acknowledgment five seconds later was the last communication with North Central Flight 290. [5] [1]
Convair CV-580 The captain attempted to execute a visual approach in poor visibility, forcing him to descend below the minimum allowed descent altitude, and the aircraft crashed short of the runway. It is believed that everyone except the captain initially survived the crash, but all but 3 died in the ensuing fire while attempting to exit the ...
On June 7, 1971, the Allegheny Airlines Convair CV-580 operating the flight crashed on approach to Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, New Haven County, Connecticut. The accident was notable in that all but one person survived the initial impact, however 27 people died in the subsequent fire, after failing to open the emergency exit.
On December 24, 1968, Allegheny Airlines Flight 736, a Convair 580, crashed on approach to Bradford, Pennsylvania, killing 20 of the 47 people on board. [25] On January 6, 1969, Allegheny Airlines Flight 737, a Convair 580, also crashed on approach to Bradford, Pennsylvania, killing 11 of the 28 people on board. [26]