Carvair Written Off
 

I have just read on AB-IX that Carvair N898AT was wrecked at a short mining strip in Alaska in an undershoot accident on 30th May.

That only leaves one in flying condition.

Good to see the crew are OK, sad about the A/C though.

Not for the faint-hearted :sad:

http://www.oldwings.nl/content/n898at/n898at.htm

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Quick, preserve the last one (where be she?). Fond memories of Plain Jane and A N Other operating ad hoc freight services from LHR and LGW in the 1970s... sigh...

How much do you get paid to put a Carvair, a DC6, a DC4 or a CASA (presumably 212) into 460m? - and out again if you're lucky.

BS

(see post #2)

NTSB reports r/w length approx. 4200 ft, elevation 1510 ft.

Was that an ex Ansett Airlines Carvair?

Sadly yes. The former VH-INK.

Sad end to a work horse

Eastern Provincial Airways had a similar accident in 1968 with a Carvair at he old Twin Falls airport in Western Labrador. They undershot the 4500-foot gravel strip and wrote the gear off, then came back around and bellied it in. I can't remember the registration, CF-EPX or EPW probably.

Whats a Carvair?
 

Answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpV_K-iWAVM

Canadian Carvair was CF-EPU on Sept. 28, 1968 at Twin Falls with 2 fatalities. As per: http://www.baaa-acro.com/Types%20d%2...r%20ATL-98.htm

>>>Answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpV_K-iWAVM

Blimey - not exactly a sparkly rate of climb.......sure it wasn't an A340?:8

Was that the video framing or did he lose Number 4?

Gosh, I had to watch it again (and again just to be sure!).

I think it is just the framing, number three's blades can just about be seen as well. I was trying to work out if they had any flaps set - hard to tell.

Think I might just have to take another look - that wonderful noise just as it is abeam the camera... You just can't beat old recips...

Yes - I thought so too, but Fairbanks in September - even with a half-dozen dumper trucks on board I would have hoped it would have climbed a liitle more..........................:eek:..unless, of course, he was 'holding it down'? I thought I could see number 1 'freeze-framing' as well. I guess all four were 'humming'.

I would like a penny for each time I have flown in one. Mainly from
Southend in the 60s.

Sometimes on schedules, sometimes on airtests and crew training.

I worked with BUAF in those days, Southend's apron in the early mornings
echoed to the sound of four or five Carvairs being warmed up before the start of the day's services.

I hope at least one is preserved, if only as a fitting memorial to Freddie Laker.

By my reckoning their is still one in the USA and one in South Africa.

whereabouts ?

N89FA which I think is based in Texas. The last time I saw a photograph of it was in a magazine last year taking off with dozens of freefall parachutists on board.