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Structural Failure May Have Led To Chalk’s Air Crash

Steve Scott

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

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Investigators are homing in on metal fatigue, probably aggravated by corrosion or sloppy repair, as a primary cause of the Chalk's Ocean Airways fatal accident on Dec. 19, 2005. The right wing separated from the seaplane shortly after takeoff from Miami, and the crash into the coastal water killed all 20 aboard. The wing was recovered from the water on Dec. 20 and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) engineers and metallurgists quickly observed that the wreckage indicated fatigue fractures. As…

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