Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary - official |
| Date: | 14 SEP 2001 |
| Time: | 21:18 |
| Type: | Beechcraft 1900C |
| Operator: | SkyLink Express |
| Registration: | C-GSKC |
| C/n / msn: | UB-27 |
| First flight: | 1984 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65B |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Substantial |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | St. John's Airport, NF (YYT) (Canada)
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| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | St. John's Airport, NF (YYT/CYYT), Canada |
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| Flightnumber: | 621 |
On take off from runway 11 at St. John's, the crew felt the nose of the aircraft rise to a high-pitch attitude. The aircraft climbed to about 150 to 200 feet, and was about to enter cloud when the crew reduced power. The crew lowered the nose, and force-landed the aircraft on the runway. The main gear, wings, engines and fuselage sustained substantial structural damage. Weather conditions at the time of the crash were reported as: winds 090° at 25 knots gusting to 35 knots, horizontal visibility 1/2 statute mile in light rain and fog, vertical
visibility 100 feet, temperature 15° Celsius, dew point 15° Celsius, altimeter 29.31 Hg., pressure dropping.
Sources:
» CADORS Number: 2001A0580
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
