| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | September 01, 2008 |
| Time: | 1210 |
| Location: | Columbus, Ohio |
| Operator: | Air Tahoma |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Colombus - Mansfield |
| AC Type: | Convair CV-580 |
| Registration: | N587X |
| cn / ln: | 361 |
| Aboard: | 3 (passengers:0 crew:3) |
| Fatalities: | 3 (passengers:0 crew:3) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | Soon after taking off the pilot radioed he was returning to the airport but the aircraft crashed into a corn field, broke up and burned. The improper (reverse) rigging of the elevator trim cables by company maintenance personnel, and their subsequent failure to discover the misrigging during required post-maintenance checks. Contributing to the accident was the captain’s inadequate post-maintenance preflight check. |
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