US Recent Aviation Accident
Title | Aircraft Accident Brief: Controlled Flight Into Terrain |
Description | Controlled Flight Into Terrain, CASA C-212-CC, N960BW, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, November 27, 2004 | NTSB Report Number | AAB-06-07, adopted on 11/8/2006 | NTIS Report Number | null |
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HISTORY OF FLIGHT On November
27, 2004, about 0820 Afghanistan time, 1 a Construcciones
Aeronauticas Sociedad Anonima C-212-CC (CASA 212) twin-engine, turboprop
airplane, N960BW, registered to Aviation Worldwide Services, LLC,
and operated by Presidential Airways, Inc., of Melbourne, Florida,
collided with mountainous terrain in the vicinity of the Bamiyan Valley,
near Bamiyan, Afghanistan. 2 The Department of Defense (DoD) contract flight
was operated under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) Part 135, with a company flight plan filed. Daylight visual
meteorological conditions (VMC) prevailed. The captain, the first
officer, and the mechanic-certificated passenger, who were U.S. civilians
employed by the operator, and the three military passengers, who were
active-duty U.S. Army soldiers, received fatal injuries. The airplane
was destroyed. The flight departed Bagram Air Base (OAIX), Bagram,
Afghanistan, about 0738.For More Details | |