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
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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 pilots 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."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | NTSB AAR-08-03/SUM |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 2 years 1 month |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
Sky divers' plane crashes, killing 6 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch 29-7-2006)
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
22 August 1990 |
N203E |
National Executive Flight Service |
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California City, CA |
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Location
Images:
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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