ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 9052
This information is added by users of ASN. Neither ASN nor the Flight Safety Foundation are responsible for the completeness or correctness of this information.
If you feel this information is incomplete or incorrect, you can submit corrected information.
| Date: | Friday 17 April 1981 |
| Time: | 16:01 |
| Type: | Cessna TU206A |
| Owner/operator: | Sky's West Parachute Center |
| Registration: | N4862F |
| MSN: | U206-0562 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1966 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 13 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Fort Collins/Loveland Municipal Airport, CO (FNL) -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Parachuting |
| Departure airport: | Fort Collins/Loveland Municipal Airport, CO (FNL) |
| Fort Collins/Loveland Municipal Airport, CO (FNL) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Air US Flight 716 departed Denver-Stapleton, CO at 15:46 for a flight to Gillette, WY. At 15:59 Flight 716 contacted Denver Center to request to maintain FL130, which was approved. In the same area a Cessna TU206 (N4862F, operated by Sky's West Parachute Center) was climbing in a racetrack pattern over Fort Collins/Loveland Municipal Airport to an altitude of FL155. The Cessna had departed this airport at 15:30 for the second parachute jump flight of the day.
The Cessna was in a climbing left turn on a north-westerly heading when it was hit by the Air US Jetstream. The No. 1 propeller of the Jetstream cut through the aft fuselage section of the Cessna resulting in immediate loss of control to both aircraft. Two of the skydivers were killed inside the aircraft during the collision. The pilot and three parachutists fell free of the aircraft and parachuted to the ground. The remains of the Cessna descended out of control and crashed in an open field. The Jetstream impacted the ground in a nearly vertical pitch attitude in an open field about 4,000 feet northeast of the Cessna wreckage.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of the Cessna pilot to establish communications with the Denver Center and his climbing into controlled airspace above 12,500 feet without an authorised deviation from the altitude encoding transponder (Mode-C) requirement, the practice of the Denver Center of routinely condoning Sky's West parachute jump operations above 12,500 feet without a Mode-C transponder and the failure of the pilots of both aircraft to "see and avoid" each other. Contributing to the accident was the fact that existing regulations do not prohibit parachute jumping in, or immediately adjacent to, Federal airways."
Accident investigation:
 |
|
Sources:
NTSB
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19810417-0
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 03-Jan-2020 02:00 | Captain Adam | Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Feb-2020 11:42 | harro | Updated [Source, Accident report, ] |
Corrections or additions? ... Edit this accident description
The Aviation Safety Network is an exclusive service provided by:
Quick Links:
| ASN Home | Send Correction / Feedback |
| FSF Home | Disclaimer | Copyright |
| Contact Us | Privacy Policy |
| Press / Media |
CONNECT WITH US:
©2024 Flight Safety Foundation