Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 19 JAN 1988 |
| Time: | 19:13 |
| Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 |
| Operator: | Mountain Air Cargo |
| Registration: | N996SA |
| C/n / msn: | 159 |
| First flight: | 1968 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 1,6 km (1 mls) S of Charlotte-Douglas Airport, NC (CLT) (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Erie International Airport, PA (ERI/KERI), United States of America |
| Charlotte-Douglas Airport, NC (CLT/KCLT), United States of America |
Descended below glide path during a runway 36L ILS approach, collided with a tree and struck the ground.
PROBABLE CAUSE:
"IFR procedure .. not followed .. pilot in command
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS:
Weather condition .. below approach/landing minimums" Sources:
» ICAO Adrep Summary 5/89 (#26)
» NTSB
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Distance from Erie International Airport, PA to Charlotte-Douglas Airport, NC as the crow flies is 761 km (476 miles).
Distance from Erie International Airport, PA to Charlotte-Douglas Airport, NC as the crow flies is 761 km (476 miles).
