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Plane crash in Montana
FAA: 17 die in Montana plane crash
The accident involves a single-engine turboprop with children aboard BREAKING NEWS updated 7:15 p.m. ET March 22, 2009 Quote:
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Hard to imagine 17 people in a PC12 but the article did mention a few children.
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From what I can see online, the standard airliner config on a PC-12 has seating for 9 pax...thats a lot of children in laps.
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17 people in this aircraft has got to raise some eyebrows, the children were being taken on a skiing trip so they cant have been that small to all fit on laps.
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I'm not sure of the laws in the US (Most are very similar to the laws here in Australia though), but I can't only of any legal way that you could fit 17 people (kids or adults) into a PC-12.
Without delving into too much investigation, the aircraft is only certified for a maximum occupancy, no matter the configuration if I recall correctly. Be interesting to follow up on this investigation, as there aren't many PC-12's in the world (around 800 or so in civilian service), and in the 15-17 years that the PC-12 has been operating, there have only been a few accidents which resulted in fatalities. Mick |
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Montana plane crash: ice on wings may be to blame
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Just a question as I have no understanding of this, but don't these aircraft have anti-ice features?
I assume ice forming on the wings would have been sufficient cause for the diversion from the inital flight plan? |
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Just checked a news item on:
www.pe.com/localnews The 14 occupants included the pilot and 3 families (6 adults and 7 children all under the age of 10!) 9 of those killed were related to a prominent dentist who lost 2 daughters, 2 son-in-laws and 5 grandchildren. Poor man, imagine what he is going through. It seems that all the adults were from the dental fraternity. As already mentioned previously, although the a/c was overloaded (by no. of pax but maybe not by weight??) icing is the most likely cause. The a/c was not fitted with cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder as it was not required to do so. Very tragic. |
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