On March 21, 1980, at 1949, Eagle Commuter Airlines, Inc., Flight 108, a Piper PA-31-350, with a pilot, a pilot-in-command trainee, and eight passengers on board, crashed on takeoff from runway 22 at William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas. The pilot, the pilot-in-command trainee, and five passengers were killed, and three passengers were injured seriously. The aircraft was destroyed by the crash and the postcrash fire. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was a power loss in the right engine for undetermined reasons at a critical point in takeoff, the aircraft's marginal single-engine performance capability, and the captain's incorrect emergency response to the engine power loss when he failed either to land immediately on the remaining runway or to configure the aircraft properly for the engine-out condition.
Aircraft Accident Report - Eagle Commuter Airlines, Inc., Piper PA-31-350, Navajo Chieftain, N59932, William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas, March 21, 1980
1981
35 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation Safety , Air Transportation , Aeronautics , Aviation accidents , Accident investigations , Passenger aircraft , Takeoff , Crash landing , Casualties , Aircraft fires , Aircraft engines , Pilots , Texas , Piper PA-31-350 aircraft , William P Hobby Airport , Houston(Texas) , Commuter transportation , Human factors