ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 157812
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Date: | Thursday 25 July 2013 |
Time: | 17:00+ LT |
Type: | Cessna U206F Stationair |
Owner/operator: | on behalf of Yellow Wings Air Services Ltd |
Registration: | 5Y-BUG |
MSN: | U206-02880 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Peak in Aberdares Range, Nairobi -
Kenya
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Laikipia |
Destination airport: | Wilson Airport (WIL/HKNW) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The aircraft, a Cessna U206F Stationair, impacted a peak west of the Aberdare National Park, Nairobi. The aircraft was reportedly destroyed and the three related occupants onboard received fatal injuries.
Weather may have been a factor in the accident.
3.2 Causes
The possible causes of the accident is failure to maintain terrain clearance that led to controlled flight into terrain:
Contributing factors:
- Improper licensing of pilot
- Pilot lacked inadequate experience and certification for type operation
- Pilot not qualified for type operation
- Operator improper approval of pilot
- Flight operational procedures including dispatch not followed
- Pilot operating in VFR while in IMC and not instrument rated
- A probable cause of the accident was failure to realize rising ground and aircraft corresponding power requirement to climb the mountain slope.
- Failure to maintain terrain clearance on mountain environment with reduced visual lookout led to controlled flight into terrain.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | |
Report number: | |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
https://bazonline.ch/panorama/vermischtes/Drei-Schweizer-sterben-bei-Flugzeugabsturz-in-Kenia/story/29880873_ https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2017/01/__trashed-1917/ https://www.nation.co.ke/News/Missing-plane-found-all-aboard-dead/-/1056/1928802/-/9xau0w/-/index.html https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1195366/ https://www.transport.go.ke/department/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=category&download=202:accident-report-cessna-206-5y-bug-25-july-2013&id=48:formal-reports&Itemid=546 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Jul-2013 15:24 |
Steinmann |
Added |
28-Jul-2013 00:08 |
Geno |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Jul-2013 01:38 |
Anon. |
Updated [Registration] |
30-Jul-2013 04:44 |
@kenyanaviator |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport] |
13-Jun-2020 17:22 |
KagurazakaHanayo |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
13-Jun-2020 17:23 |
harro |
Updated [Narrative, Accident report, ] |
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