ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 323459
Date: | Monday 31 July 2000 |
Time: | 00:34 |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 |
Owner/operator: | Win Win Aviation |
Registration: | N201RH |
MSN: | 163 |
Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
Total airframe hrs: | 28711 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 3 km SSW of Raleigh/Durham Airport, NC (RDU) -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Hinckley Airport, IL |
Destination airport: | Louisburg-Franklin County Airport, NC (LFN/KLHZ) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative: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: "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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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | MIA00FA229 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 1 year and 9 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB
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