Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 06 JAN 2010 |
| Type: | Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Operator: | Mack Air |
| Registration: | A2-AKG |
| C/n / msn: | 208B-0573 |
| First flight: | 1997 |
| Engines: | 1 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | Repaired |
| Location: | Piajo Airstrip, Chief's Island, Okavango Delta (Botswana) |
| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Maun Airport (MUB/FBMN), Botswana |
The aircraft suffered a loss of engine power on take-off and crashed in a wet flood plain and overturned. Some injuries to the passengers on board, one of whom suffered a broken hip.
Sources:
» Five injured in aircraft crash (The Botswana Gazette, 10-1-2009)
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
