Aircraft Accident

Accident description:
Status:
Preliminary
Date:
18 JUN 2008
Time:
10:03
Type:
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 100
Operator:
Wiggins Airways
Registration:
N656WA
C/n / msn:
47
First flight:
1967
Crew:
Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Passengers:
Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:
Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Airplane damage:
Destroyed
Location:
Hyannis-Barnstable Airport, MA (HYA) (United States of America)
Phase:
Takeoff
Nature:
Cargo
Departure airport:
Hyannis-Barnstable Airport, MA (HYA/KHYA), United States of America
Destination airport:
Nantucket Memorial Airport, MA (ACK/KACK), United States of America
Flightnumber:
6601

Narrative: Wiggins Airways has a twice daily flight to the island carrying UPS and Federal Express packages. It was carrying about 200 pounds of cargo for the morning flight. The airplane taxied to runway 24 for departure. A Wiggins Airways spokesman told the Cape Cod Times that the plane "..lifted off and got to about 200 feet in the air and rolled. It continued to roll and went right over and impacted the ground nose first."
Sources: » Pilot killed in Hyannis air crash identified (Cape Cod Times, 18-6-2008)

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20080618-0

Fonte: Flight Safety Foundation 19/06/2008