Last updated: 25 January 2021
| Estado: | Final |
| Fecha: | lunes 31 julio 2000 |
| Hora: | 00:34 |
| Tipo: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 |
| Operador: | Win Win Aviation |
| Registración: | N201RH |
| Numéro de série: | 163 |
| Año de Construcción: | 1968 |
| Horas Totales de la Célula: | 28711 |
| Motores: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
| Tripulación: | Fatalidades: 1 / Ocupantes: 1 |
| Pasajeros: | Fatalidades: 0 / Ocupantes: 2 |
| Total: | Fatalidades: 1 / Ocupantes: 3 |
| Daños en la Aeronave: | Destruido |
| Consecuencias: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Ubicación: | 3 km (1.9 milles) SSW of Raleigh/Durham Airport, NC (RDU) ( Estados Unidos de América)
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| Fase: | Aproximación (APR) |
| Naturaleza: | Ferry/Posicionado |
| Aeropuerto de Salida: | Hinckley Airport, IL, Estados Unidos de América |
| Louisburg-Franklin County Airport, NC (LFN/KLHZ), Estados Unidos de América |
The Twin Otter was on a positioning flight to a maintenance facility at Louisburg to have maintenance performed on the engines. Poor visibility due to ground fog forced the pilot to abandon his attempt to land. The pilot elected to divert to Raleigh-Durham. The flight was heading in a southwesterly direction, at 1,000 feet msl, about 1.5 miles from Raleigh-Durham, then turned left to heading of south, away from the airport. The last radar return showed the flight at an altitude of 500 feet msl, in a right turn heading 206 degrees. The aircraft crashed into dense woods within the Umstead State Park, short of Raleigh-Durham runway 32. Reported RDU weather at 00:30 was wind 140deg/6 knots, 500 feet broken ceiling.
Probable Cause:
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's continued VFR flight into IMC conditions, by failing to maintain altitude, and descending from VFR conditions into IMC, which resulted in him subsequently impacting with trees. Factors in this accident were: reduced visibility due to dark night and fog. An additional factor was the pilot was not certified for instrument flight."
Accident investigation:
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Fuentes:
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Hinckley Airport, IL to Louisburg-Franklin County Airport, NC as the crow flies is 1093 km (683 miles).
Accident location: Approximate; accuracy within a few kilometers.
Distance from Hinckley Airport, IL to Louisburg-Franklin County Airport, NC as the crow flies is 1093 km (683 miles).
Accident location: Approximate; accuracy within a few kilometers.
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.
