Date: | Friday 22 October 2004 |
Time: | 10:33 |
Type: | Reims Cessna F406 Caravan II |
Owner/operator: | Highland Airways |
Registration: | G-TWIG |
MSN: | F406-0014 |
Year of manufacture: | 1987 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-112 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 60 km NW of Inverness -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Stornoway Airport (SYY/EGPO) |
Destination airport: | Inverness Airport (INV/EGPE) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:A Reims Cessna F406 Caravan II, G-TWIG, operated by Highland Airways, was destroyed when it collided with mountainous terrain northwest of Inverness, U.K.
The pilot was killed.
The airplane departed Stornoway Airport (SYY) at 10:15 on a positioning flight to Inverness Airport (INV). At 10:29 the pilot was cleared to descend from FL95 to FL75. Three minutes later radar contact was lost.
The aircraft wreckage was found by a mountain rescue team the following day at 13:30. It was located at an elevation of 2,480 ft amsl on Meall Feith na Slataich, a broad mountain ridge in a remote area of the Scottish Highlands.
CONCLUSION: "During a gentle descent from FL95 to FL75 in instrument meteorological conditions G-TWIG rapidly entered a dramatic and sustained manoeuvre from what initially appeared to be controlled flight at normal descent speed. Despite a determined and thorough investigation, because there was insufficient evidence from which to draw a firm conclusion, the cause or causal factors for this rapid deviation from controlled flight could not be identified."
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