Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 15 JAN 1989 |
| Time: | 08:10 |
| Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter |
| Operator: | Temsco Helicopters |
| Registration: | N11250 |
| C/n / msn: | 171 |
| First flight: | 1957 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 10366 |
| Engines: | 1 Pratt & Whitney R-1340-59 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Ketchikan, AK (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Ketchikan-Waterfront SPB, AK (WFB), United States of America |
| Klawock Airport, AK (KLW), United States of America |
After departing the floatplane base on a company VFR flight plan, the Otter proceeded northwest along a salt water strait at a low altitude above water. Two miles Northwest of the airport the aircraft entered a snow squall and the pilot attempted a steep turn to reverse course. During the turn the aircraft
impacted and sank in 167 feet deep water.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's inadvertant flight into ifr conditions and the stall which occurred during the turn to reverse course. Contributing to the accident were the snow conditions encountered." Sources:
» NTSB
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Ketchikan-Waterfront SPB, AK to Klawock Airport, AK as the crow flies is 92 km (58 miles).
Distance from Ketchikan-Waterfront SPB, AK to Klawock Airport, AK as the crow flies is 92 km (58 miles).
