- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | April 22, 1992 |
Time: | 1109 |
Location: | Perris Valley, California |
Operator: | Perris Valley Aviation |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Local |
AC Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 |
Registration: | N141PV |
cn / ln: | 141 |
Aboard: | 22 (passengers:20 crew:2) |
Fatalities: | 16 (passengers:14 crew:2) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The plane, carrying parachutists, lost power and crashed 200 ft. past the runway. The pilot's inadvertent feathering of the wrong propeller following an engine power loss and the failure of the operator to assure that the pilot was provided with adequate training in the airplane. Water contamination of fuel in the airport storage tanks. Lack of fuel quality control procedures. Improper fuel servicing and exceeding the gross weight forward center of gravity limits of the airplane. |
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