About 1100 m.s.t., on February 15, 1983, a Sierra Pacific Airlines DHC-6, operating as Transwestern Flight 868, a regularly scheduled commuter flight from Boise, Idaho, crashed during its final approach to a landing on runway 31, 1.7 miles south of the Friedman Memorial Airport at Hailey, Idaho. Two flightcrew members and six passengers were on board the flight. One passenger escaped with minor injuries, but all the other occupants were seriously injured. There was no fire. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the inflight loss of elevator control following separation of the control rod from the torque tube at a connection where the company's inspection department had failed to detect.
Aircraft Accident Report - Sierra Pacific Airlines deHavilland DHC-6-300, N361V, Hailey, Idaho, February 15, 1983
1984
54 pages
Report
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English