- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | July 13, 2000 |
Time: | 0034 |
Location: | Raleigh, North Carolina |
Operator: | Win Win Aviation |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Hinckley, IL - Louisburg, NC |
AC Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 |
Registration: | N201RH |
cn / ln: | 163 |
Aboard: | 3 (passengers:2 crew:1) |
Fatalities: | 1 (passengers:0 crew:1) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The plane, on a positioning flight crashed into rugged woods during an approach to land. The pilot's continued VFR flight into IMC conditions, by failing to maintain altitude, and descending from VFR conditions into IMC, which resulted in him subsequently impacting with trees. Factors in this accident were: reduced visibility due to dark night and fog. An additional factor was the pilot was not certified for instrument flight. |
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