Accident Cessna P206 HK-4974,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 270970
 
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Date:Wednesday 30 January 2019
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic C206 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Cessna P206
Owner/operator:Transpacíficos y Cía. S.A.S.
Registration: HK-4974
MSN: P206-0055
Year of manufacture:1964
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Category:Accident
Location:Leticia, Amazonas -   Colombia
Phase: Landing
Nature:Cargo
Departure airport:Tarapacá Airport (TCD/SKRA)
Destination airport:Leticia-Alfredo Vásquez Cobo Airport (LET/SKLT)
Investigating agency: Aerocivil
Confidence Rating: Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Narrative:
The aircraft made a hard landing, causing substantial damage to the rear fuselage.

Probable causes:
Abnormal contact with the runway after a hard landing that resulted in the empennage impacting the asphalt surface during the landing maneuver. Improper flare technique during the landing maneuver.

Contributing Factors:
Weakness in the personnel selection and assignment processes, consisting of hiring and operational scheduling of a pilot with low experience, without an adequate flight program of adaptation in the equipment and an adaptation to the operational environment.
The pilot's inadequate landing technique, by allowing the aircraft to make abnormal contact with the runway during the flare, strongly impacting the rear part of the fuselage against the runway.

Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: Aerocivil
Report number: COL-19-15-GIA
Status: Investigation completed
Duration:
Download report: Final report

Sources:

Aerocivil

Revision history:

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19-Dec-2021 20:13 harro Added

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