Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 29 JAN 1990 |
| Time: | 20:33 |
| Type: |  Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster |
| Operating for: | Federal Express |
| Leased from: | Wiggins Airways |
| Registration: | N854FE |
| C/n / msn: | 208B-0172 |
| First flight: | 1989 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 390 |
| Engines: | 1 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 3,2 km (2 mls) S of Plattsburgh-Clinton County Airport, NY (PLB) (United States of America)
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| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Plattsburgh-Clinton County Airport, NY (PLB/KPLB), United States of America |
| Syracuse-Hancock International Airport, NY (SYR/KSYR), United States of America |
The Cessna made a takeoff from runway 19 at Plattsburgh-Clinton County Airport (PLB) with light wet snow falling, at night. The airplane reached an altitude of 700 feet agl prior to making a steep descent, striking trees and impacting inverted. The accident airplane had come from a hangar and was not deiced prior to departure.
Another Cessna Caravan (N4688B) crashed under the same circumstances just about 40 km (25 miles) away at 21:00 minutes.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Loss of control in-flight after the airplane stalled during climbout. The stall resulted from a loss of lift due to a contaminated wing surface. Contributing to the accident was the failure of the pilot to de-ice the aircraft prior to departure." Events:
Sources:
» NTSB
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Distance from Plattsburgh-Clinton County Airport, NY to Syracuse-Hancock International Airport, NY as the crow flies is 269 km (168 miles).
Distance from Plattsburgh-Clinton County Airport, NY to Syracuse-Hancock International Airport, NY as the crow flies is 269 km (168 miles).
