| Date: | Sunday 15 January 1989 |
| Time: | 08:10 |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Owner/operator: | Temsco Helicopters |
| Registration: | N11250 |
| MSN: | 171 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1957 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 10366 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1340-59 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Ketchikan, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base, AK (WFB) |
| Klawock Airport, AK (KLW/PAKW) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
After departing the floatplane base on a company VFR flight plan, the Otter proceeded northwest along a salt water strait at a low altitude above water. Two miles Northwest of the airport the aircraft entered a snow squall and the pilot attempted a steep turn to reverse course. During the turn the aircraft impacted and sank in 167 feet deep water.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's inadvertant flight into ifr conditions and the stall which occurred during the turn to reverse course. Contributing to the accident were the snow conditions encountered."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 11 September 1985 | N11250 | Bering Air, Inc. | 0 | Cape Douglas, AK | |
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