Incident Overview

Date: Saturday 16 October 1954
Aircraft Type: Convair CV-240-6
Owner/operator: Aerolineas Argentinas
Registration Number: LV-ADQ
Location: SSW of Capilla del Senor – ÿ Argentina
Phase of Flight: En route
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 32
Component Affected: AircraftAircraft
Category: Accident
On 15:00, a Convair aircraft took off from Buenos Aires for a VFR flight to Cordoba, aiming for an altitude of 1200 meters. Approximately 10 minutes after takeoff, the pilot requested a descent to 600 meters due to a marked frontal belt. Subsequently, the aircraft entered a storm area and descended into the ground. The probable cause was a result of conditions arising while attempting to leave a violent storm, leading to the aircraft being carried into the ground.On 15:00, a Convair aircraft took off from Buenos Aires for a VFR flight to Cordoba, aiming for an altitude of 1200 meters. Approximately 10 minutes after takeoff, the pilot requested a descent to 600 meters due to a marked frontal belt. Subsequently, the aircraft entered a storm area and descended into the ground. The probable cause was a result of conditions arising while attempting to leave a violent storm, leading to the aircraft being carried into the ground.

Description

The Convair took off from Buenos Aires at 15:00 for a VFR flight to Cordoba. En route altitude was to be 1200 m. Some 10 minutes after takeoff the pilot requested permission to descend to 600 m because of a marked frontal belt. A little later the aircraft entered the storm area and descended into the ground. PROBABLE CAUSE: “Through causes which could not be fully ascertained and in circumstances arising while the aircraft, in attempting to leave the area of a violent storm, was flying at a low altitude, the aircraft was carried into the ground. Contributory causes: 1) The persistence of the pilot-in-command in attempting in climb, without making use, at the appropriate time, of the full power available to arrest the descent caused, according to his own statement, by meteorological conditions. 2) The decision by the pilot-in-command to enter a local storm the violence of which he did not foresee and which he could have circumnavigated as prescribed by the operational standards of the company. 3) The fact that the pilot-in-command had no meteorological information relating to the weather conditions he encountered.”

Primary Cause

Pilot-in-command’s failure to utilize available power to arrest descent due to meteorological conditions, combined with a decision to enter a local storm without sufficient foresight and circumavigation.Pilot-in-command’s failure to utilize available power to arrest descent due to meteorological conditions, combined with a decision to enter a local storm without sufficient foresight and circumavigation.

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