EX Lake Central Airplane makes her final voyage.
I had the pleasure of knowing this
airplane very intimately ever since she was CV-340 N73131 for Lake Central. I've
done Weight and Balance on this airplane countless times all the way up through
her becoming N5841 and leaving Allegheny as N535SA for Summit. I've put some
other pictures of her below the crash pictures. Warning. This page will load
slow!!
-Charlie Pyles-
Fuselage was pretty much intact from this vantage Point where you can see
what appears to be the right wing demolished along with the entire cabin forward
of the wing.
13 AUG 2004 CV-580 N586P Air Tahoma , near Cincinnati, KY, USA 1(2)
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http://aviation-safety.net/index.shtml. The 2004 year list of accidents
always contains the most recent information on each accident.
ASN ACCIDENT DIGEST 2004-16
Date: 13 AUG 2004
Time: ca 00:50 local
Type: Convair CV-580
Operator: Air Tahoma
Registration: N586P
Msn - C/n: 68
Crew: 1 fatalities / 2 on board
Passengers: 0 fatalities / 0 on board
Total: 1 fatalities / 2 on board
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: near Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport, OH (CVG) (USA)
Phase: Approach
Nature: Cargo
Departure airport: Memphis International Airport, TN (MEM)
Destination airport: Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport, OH (CVG)
Flight number: HMA185
The Convair, owned by Air Tahoma, was carrying overnight delivery packages under
contract to DHL Worldwide Express. It was on a visual approach to runway 36R at
Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport when the pilot reported engine trouble. The
aircraft crashed on the sixth hole at the World of Sports golf course, just
south of the airport and broke up.
Source: FAA; The Kentucky Post
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AIRCRAFT PROFILE CONVAIR 580
* Last hull-loss accident: 03 APR 2004 3D-ZOE? (private), at Shabunda, Congo
- 0 fatalities
* Last fatal hull-loss accident: 03 OCT 2003 ZK-KFU Air Freight NZ, off Waikanae,
NZ - 2 fatalities
* Total number of hull-losses: 11 losses (25 accidents and 2 unknown
occurrences)
* 13th worst Cv-580 accident
* Survival rate for all fatal CV-580 accidents: on average 28,1% of all
occupants survived fatal accidents
* history of msn 68:
- N73131 United Air Lines (MAY 1953 delivered as CV-340)
- N73131 Lake Central Airlines (bought, NOV 1960)
- N73131 Lake Central Airlines (JAN 1968 converted to CV-580)
- N5841 merged into Allgeheny Airlines (AUG 1968)
- N5841 Mountainwest Aviation (bought, 14 MAR 1978)
- N5841 merged into Sierra Pacific Airlines (NOV 1978)
- N535SA Summit Airlines (bought, SEP 1979)
- N535SA Corporat Air (bought, SEP 1987)
- OO-DHC EAT/DHL (leased, OCT 1987)
- EC-HMR Swiftair/DHL (leased, MAY 2000)
- N586P Air Tahoma (bought, APR 2004)
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OPERATOR PROFILE AIR TAHOMA
Air Tahoma is a Part 121 Air Carrier with Canadian and Mexican operating
authority. The fleet of Convair aircraft are mostly used to support major
overnight express companies.
founded: 1996
* 1st airliner hull-loss accident
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2004 SO FAR
* Number of fatal hull-loss airliner accidents : 16 (safety rank since 1950:
2nd safest)
* Number of fatalities: 309 (safety rank since 1950: 4th worst)
(Coverage: fatal, multi engine civil airliner accidents)
A Delta 737-200 Departs 8/16 at CVG two days after N586P crashed
on the World of Golf Friday Morning seen here at far left in the trees.
In this view you can see parts of the left engine cowling and what is left of
the Convair 580 cabin from the wings forward. Pretty amazing that the Captain
survived when you see this.
This shot is an old dupe I got from Dean Slaybaugh many moons ago.
This a classic Elliot Greenman shot at Pittsburgh.
I got this one from Joe Turner although I have my own shots as well.
