ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 325726
| Date: | Tuesday 20 August 1991 |
| Time: | 13:15 |
| Type: |  Britten-Norman BN-2A-26 Islander |
| Owner/operator: | Temsco Helicopters |
| Registration: | N68HA |
| MSN: | 2009 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1978 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 16395 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-540-E4C5 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 33 km from Ketchikan, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Ketchikan International Airport, AK (KTN/PAKT) |
| Wrangell Airport, AK (WRG/PAWG) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Some 45 minutes after departed Ketchikan the pilot of the Islander decided to return because he encountered marginal weather circumstances. The aircraft collided with trees and rising terrain at 800 feet msl while in a near level flight.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's attempting to operate VFR in instrument meteorological conditions. Factors contributing to the accident were upsloping terrain in the aircraft's flight path as well as weather conditions resulting in an obscuration of the terrain."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
BAAA-ACRO
NTSB
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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