Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 05 JAN 2004 |
| Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Operator: | Regional Air |
| Registration: | P2-KSG |
| C/n / msn: | 509 |
| First flight: | 1976 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Sturt Island (Papua New Guinea) |
| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Sturt Island, Papua New Guinea |
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Twin Otter P2-KSG prepared to depart to from the Sturt Island airstrip. Runway 14/32 is a 780m long grassed red clay airstrip, which can only be used for takeoff in one direction. Control was lost when the pilot tried to avoid some puddles while attempting to takeoff from runway 14. The airplane sustained irreparable damage.
Sources:
» Scramble 300
» Tactical Airfield Guide Regional / Australian Defence Force
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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.
