About 1601:17 m.s.t., April 17, 1981, Air U.S. Flight 716, a Handley Page HP-137 Jetstream, and a Sky's West Parachute Center Inc., Cessna TU-206 collided in midair about 2 nmi east-southeast of the Ft. Collins/Loveland Airport, Loveland, Colorado. The pilot and the three other occupants of the Cessna were wearing parachutes, deployed them, and survived with injuries. All 13 persons on the HP-137 were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the Cessna pilot to establish communications with the Denver Center and his climbing into controlled airspace above 12,500 feet without an authorized deviation from the altitude encoding transponder (Mode-C) requirement, the practice of the Denver Center of routinely condoning Sky's West parachute jump operations above 12,500 feet without a Mode-C transponder and the failure of the pilots of both aircraft to 'see and avoid' each other. Contributing to the accident was the fact that existing regulations do not prohibit parachute jumping in, or immediately adjacent to, Federal airways.


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    Titel :

    Aircraft Accident Report - Air U.S. Flight 716, HP-137, N11360, and Sky's West Cessna TU-206, N4862F, Midair Collision, Ft. Collins/Loveland Municipal Airport, Loveland, Colorado, April 17, 1981


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1981


    Format / Umfang :

    50 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch