ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 318891
| Date: | Tuesday 21 December 2021 |
| Time: | 09:25 |
| Type: |  Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster |
| Owner/operator: | Martinaire |
| Registration: | N1116N |
| MSN: | 208B0417 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1994 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Fulshear, TX -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Houston-George Bush Intercontinental Airport, TX (IAH/KIAH) |
| Victoria Regional Airport, TX (VCT/KVCT) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Martinaire flight 685, a Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster, collided with a powered paraglider while inflight near Fulshear, Texas, USA, and crashed.
The aircraft departed Houston-George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Texas at 09:10 on a flight to Victoria Regional Airport, Texas. It was cleared to climb to an altitude of 5000 feet. At 09:25 the Cessna struck a Dudek Paragliders Solo 21 powered paraglider with the right wing tip and entered a steep descent until it struck the ground. The outboard 10 ft of the Cessna 208B right wing had separated inflight and was located on the ground about half a mile east-southeast of the main Cessna 208B wreckage.
The individual flying the powered paraglider and the paragliders engine were found about 0.7 mile east-northeast of the Cessna 208B main wreckage.
Sources:
abc13.com
Flightaware track
Location
Images:
photo (c) Texas Department of Public Safety; Fulshear, TX; 21 December 2021
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