| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | August 16, 2007 |
| Time: | 2316 |
| Location: | Near Ketchikan, Alaska |
| Operator: | SeaWind Aviation |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Sightseeing |
| AC Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver |
| Registration: | N345KA |
| cn / ln: | 1306 |
| Aboard: | 10 (passengers:9 crew:1) |
| Fatalities: | 6 (passengers:6 crew:0) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The float plane crashed on land into a tree, 200 feet from shore, while attempting to land. High winds were in the area at the time of the accident. The pilot's poor decision-making and inadequate planning. To avoid the rising waves, the pilot decided to take off toward the sheltered interior of the bay, toward the rising terrain, in a direction he had never attempted before. As the pilot attempted to turn the aircraft around, the airplane hit a downdraft, which held it from climbing above the closing landscape and caused the plane to stall about 60 feet over the ground. |
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