Loss of pitch control during takeoff, Air Midwest Flight 5481, Raytheon (Beechcraft) 1900D, N233YV, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 8, 2003.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. National Transportation Safety Board

Series:

Aircraft accident report (United States. National Transportation Safety Board) ; NTSB/AAR-04/01.

Airfcraft accident report ; NTSB/AAR-04/01

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aircraft accidents--North Carolina--Charlotte.

Aircraft accidents.

Airplanes--Takeoff.

Airplanes.

North Carolina--Charlotte.

Physical Description:

x, 203 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National transportation Safety Board, [2004]

Summary:

On January 8, 2003, about 0847:28 EST, Air Midwest flight 5481, a Raytheon (Beechcraft) 1900D, N233YV, crashed shortly after takeoff from runway 18R at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina. The 2 flight crew members and 19 passengers aboard the airplane were killed, 1 person on the ground received minor injuries, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash fire. Flight 5481 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight to Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, Greer, South Carolina, and was operating under the provisions of 14 "Code of Federal Regulations" Part 121 on an instrument flight rules flight plan. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the airplane's loss of pitch control during takeoff. The loss of pitch control resulted from the incorrect rigging of the elevator control system compounded by the airplane's aft center of gravity, which was substantially aft of the certified aft limit. Contributing to the cause of the accident were the following: (1) Air Midwest's lack of oversight of the work being performed at the Huntington, West Virginia, maintenance station.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed Feb. 24, 2009).

"Adopted February 26, 2004."

"Notation 7545B."

The original document contains color images. NTIS report number PB2004-910401. DTIC reproductions will be in black and white.

Electronic reproduction. [Ft. Belvoir, Va. : Defense Technical Information Center], 2004.

OCLC:

74270761

Access Restriction:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE.