Date:	Saturday 29 July 2006
Time:	13:45
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 100
Owner/operator:	Quantum Leap Skydiving Center
Registration:	N203E
MSN:	53
Year of manufacture:	1967
Total airframe hrs:	37434 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 8
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Sullivan Regional Airport, MO -   United States of America
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Parachuting
Departure airport:	Sullivan Regional Airport, MO (KUUV)
Destination airport:	Sullivan Regional Airport, MO (KUUV)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Twin Otter N203E departed Sullivan Regional carrying seven skydivers. Immediately after takeoff from runway 06 witnesses heard a popping sound. The Twin Otter lost height, contacted a utility pole, a tree and crashed next to a house at 1039 North and South Road, just northwest of the airport.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilot’s failure to maintain airspeed following a loss of power in the right engine due to the fracturing of compressor turbine blades for undetermined reasons. Contributing to some parachutists’ injuries was the lack of a more effective restraint system on the airplane."

Sky divers' plane crashes, killing 6 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch 29-7-2006)

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

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photo (c) NTSB; Sullivan Regional Airport, MO; 29 July 2006; (publicdomain)

photo (c) NTSB; Sullivan Regional Airport, MO; July 2006; (publicdomain)

photo (c) Werner Fischdick; San Diego-Montgomery Field, CA (MYF); 18 July 1988

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