ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328445
| Date: | Monday 3 December 1979 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Owner/operator: | Evergreen Helicopters |
| Registration: | N8061V |
| MSN: | 294 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1970 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Nome, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Nome Airport, AK (OME/PAOM) |
| Shishmaref Airport, AK (SHH/PASH) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft went missing while on a VFR flight along the coastline to Shishmaref. Marginal VFR to IFR weather with icing conditions below 10.000 feet. The search for the plane was called off on December 19. The wreckage was finally recovered February 10, 1980.
PROBABLE CAUSE:
pilot in command - continued VFR flight into adverse weather conditions
FACTORS:
terrain - snow-covered
terrain - high obstructions
weather - low ceiling
weather - snow
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
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