Alaska, TurboBeaver CFIT (sort of)
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Alaska, Turbo Otter CFIT (sort of)
No fatalities, minimal injuries. Impact with rising terrain at 2000 ft, but looks like the pilot managed to mush it in, also using floats as expendable "EMAS" for minimum impact force. Well-controlled flight into terrain. Unclear if engine failure was a factor.
N3952B, apparently
Operated by Taquan Air.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/plane-carr...ry?id=56491674
N3952B, apparently
Operated by Taquan Air.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/plane-carr...ry?id=56491674
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Tricky weather for helicopter rescue: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44799373
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Engine failure not a factor. The pilot doesn't quite come out and say it, but reading between the lines of what he did say, he lost visual contact with the ground in poor visibility, and climbed, he either saw the rocks at the last second and yanked back to lessen the crash, of they simply got lucky and hit the rocks at a favorable angle and low airspeed (He was climbing, that much is clear, so airspeed would be less than normal cruise)
