ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 326390
Date: | Sunday 15 January 1989 |
Time: | 08:10 |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
Owner/operator: | Temsco Helicopters |
Registration: | N11250 |
MSN: | 171 |
Year of manufacture: | 1957 |
Total airframe hrs: | 10366 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1340-59 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Ketchikan, AK -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base, AK (WFB) |
Destination airport: | Klawock Airport, AK (KLW/PAKW) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:After departing the floatplane base on a company VFR flight plan, the Otter proceeded northwest along a salt water strait at a low altitude above water. Two miles Northwest of the airport the aircraft entered a snow squall and the pilot attempted a steep turn to reverse course. During the turn the aircraft impacted and sank in 167 feet deep water.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's inadvertant flight into ifr conditions and the stall which occurred during the turn to reverse course. Contributing to the accident were the snow conditions encountered."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | SEA89FA036 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 1 year and 8 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB
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