| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | October 10, 2001 |
| Time: | 0926 |
| Location: | Dillingham, Alaska |
| Operator: | PenAir |
| Flight #: | 350 |
| Route: | Dillingham - King Salmon |
| AC Type: | Cessna 208 Caravan |
| Registration: | N9530F |
| cn / ln: | 20800088 |
| Aboard: | 10 (passengers:9 crew:1) |
| Fatalities: | 10 (passengers:9 crew:1) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | Shortly after taking off from Dillingham, the aircraft's wing dipped, the nose pitched up, the plane became inverted and crashed to the ground. The weather was clear and windy at the time of the accident. An in-flight loss of control resulting from upper surface ice contamination that the pilot-in-command failed to detect during his preflight inspection of the airplane. Contributing to the accident was the lack of a preflight inspection requirement for CE-208 pilots to examine at close range the upper surface of the wing for ice contamination when ground icing conditions exist. |
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