ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 370294
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| Date: | Monday 27 March 2006 |
| Time: | 14:30 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 402C |
| Owner/operator: | Hyannis Air Service, Inc |
| Registration: | N223PB |
| MSN: | 402C0105 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 26840 hours |
| Engine model: | Teledyne Continental TSIO-520VB |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Dorado, PR -
 Puerto Rico
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Mayaguez-Eugenio M. de Hostos Airport (MAZ/TJMZ) |
| San Juan-Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU/TJSJ) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
While flying at 5,000 feet in a broken layer with some light rain and turbulence with the autopilot on, the pilot later reported, encountering severe turbulence, which lasted for 1 second. Several passengers hit their heads on the ceiling as a result. She reported avoiding all clouds after that, requested medical assistance, and landed uneventfully. One passenger who was injured reported that the pilot advised them that the flight would be "bumpy" and they needed to keep their seatbelts fastened, which she complied with. At the time of the event she could hear "...something like small pebbles dropping onto the plane. There was mist on the windshield that streamed from the bottom/middle of the windshield to the top." She further stated that after assessing herself, "maybe a minute or two, the pilot turned on a screen that had been blank up to that point." She also reported seeing "...green blobs that came on and off. It reminded me of the radar screen that I have seen on TV." Weather radar images indicate the airplane was near VIP Level 1 to Level 4 radar returns at the time of the occurrence.
Probable Cause: The failure of the pilot to use on-board weather radar equipment for weather avoidance and the pilot's continued operation into known adverse weather conditions, resulting in injury to passengers.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB MIA06LA071
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 10 February 2015 | N223PB | Cape Air | 0 | Vieques-Antonio Rivera Rodríguez Airport (VQS) | |
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| 25-Mar-2024 09:09 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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