About 1852 c.d.t., on October 20, 1977, a Convair 240, N55VM, owned and operated by L & J Company and transporting the Lynyrd Skynyrd Band from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, crashed 5 miles northeast of Gillsburg, Mississippi. There were 24 passengers and 2 crewmembers on board the aircraft. The 2 crewmembers and 4 of the passengers were killed; 20 others were injured. The aircraft was destroyed by impact; there was no fire. The flight had reported to the Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center that it was low on fuel and requested radar vectors to McComb, Mississppi. The aircraft crashed in a heavily wooded area during an attempted emergency landing. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was fuel exhaustion and total loss of power from both engines due to crew inattention to fuel supply. Contributing to the fuel exhaustion were inadequate flight planning and an engine malfunction of undetermined nature in the right engine which resulted in higher-than-normal fuel consumption.
Aircraft Accident Report - L and J Company, Convair 240, N55VM, Gillsburg, Mississippi, October 20, 1977
1978
26 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
PROGRESS REPORT…. CONVAIR 880 AND CONVAIR 600 TURBOJET TRANSPORT
SAE Technical Papers | 1959
|