- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | December 24, 1961 |
Time: | 1050 |
Location: | Old Harbor, Kodiak Island, Alaska |
Operator: | Kodiak Airways |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Old Harbor - Kaguyak |
AC Type: | Grumman G-21A Goose |
Registration: | N1503V |
cn / ln: | 1020 |
Aboard: | 5 (passengers:4 crew:1) |
Fatalities: | 1 (passengers:1 crew:0) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | Crashed shortly after initial lift-off while making a water takeoff from Old Harbor. Improperly executed takeoff which resulted in an inadvertent descent into the water. This produced a high-speed low-angle porpoising from which the pilot was unable to recover. |
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