About 1546 c.d.t., on June 12, 1980, an Air Wisconsin, Inc., Swearingen SA-226 Metro, operating as Flight 965, crashed near Valley, Nebraska. Flight 965 encountered severe thunderstorms while at an altitude of less than 6,000 ft and experienced a simultaneous loss of power to both engines because of massive water ingestion. Although the engines were subsequently restarted the aircraft crashed in a field and was destroyed. Of the 15 persons aboard Flight 965, 13 were killed and 2 were injured seriously. These had been the thunderstorm activity in the vicinity of the accident site for several hours, and a severe storm warning had been issued for the Omaha area. The meteorologists in the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center (ARTCC) had alerted supervisory air traffic control personnel of the severity of the weather conditions; however, the information was not disseminated to the controllers or to the flightcrew of Flight 965. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the flightcrew's continued flight into an area of severe thunderstorms, and the resultant precipitation induced flameout or loss of power of both engines at an altitude from which recovery could not be made.


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    Titel :

    Aircraft Accident Report - Air Wisconsin, Inc., Swearingen SA-226 Metro, N650S, Valley, Nebraska, June 12, 1980


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1980


    Format / Umfang :

    70 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch