ASN Aircraft accident de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 PK-NUL Nabire Airport (NBX)
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Date:Wednesday 16 June 1993
Type:Silhouette image of generic DHC6 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300
Operator:Merpati Nusantara Airlines
Registration: PK-NUL
MSN: 391
First flight: 1974
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27
Crew:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3
Passengers:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Aircraft fate: Repaired
Location:Nabire Airport (NBX) (   Indonesia)
Phase: Initial climb (ICL)
Nature:Cargo
Departure airport:Nabire Airport (NBX/WABI), Indonesia
Destination airport:?
Narrative:
A cargo of rice bags had not been secured. The cargo thus probably began to shift during the aircraft's rotation. The nose pitched up, the aircraft stalled and crashed.
The airplane was repaired and registered in Canada in December 2000 as C-GHVV on behalf of Rocky Mountain Aircraft. In August 2006 the Twin Otter was registered to Provincial Airlines.

Classification:
Cargo shift
Loss of control

Sources:
» Air International
» Flight International
» Scramble 170


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