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| Date: | Wednesday 13 February 2019 |
| Time: | 14:52 |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Owner/operator: | Winair |
| Registration: | PJ-WII |
| MSN: | 682 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Saint-Barthélémy-Rémy de Haenen Airport (SBH/TFFJ) -
 Saint Barthélemy
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| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Sint Maarten-Juliana Airport (SXM/TNCM) |
| Saint-Barthélémy-Rémy de Haenen Airport (SBH/TFFJ) | |
| Investigating agency: | BEA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
At the arrival at the parking, a gate agent is hit in the head by the right engine spinning propeller.
Contributing factors:
- the ground handler's failure to comply with safety measures designed to protect personnel from the hazards inherent around an operating aircraft;
- the probable state of fatigue of the ground handler due to his late bedtime and his probable consumption of psychoactive substances;
- the habit taken, during short rotations, by a part of the ground handling personnel, to disregard certain safety measures in order to gain time, which could have encouraged him to leave his position at the nose of the aircraft without waiting for the complete stop of the propellers.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://bea.aero/en/investigation-reports/notified-events/detail/accident-to-the-de-havilland-dhc6-registered-pj-wii-and-operated-by-winair-on-13-02-2019-at-saint-barthelemy/
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