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Montana Graveyard crash plane was not licensed to carry 17 people.

  • 23-03-2009 4:22pm
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
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    A small single engined turboprop plane that crashed into a cemetery in the northern US state of Montana, killing all 17 people on board, was not certified to carry such a large load, an aviation attorney says. It looks as if some of the passengers were not properly seated.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/23/2524097.htm?section=world


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  • #2
    FlutterinBantam
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    Thats what I thought myself,coupled with the fact that it was reported as a 1500 km trip!!

    The fact that they were mostly children might,I say might, account for the weight factor, but I cannot recall any single engined a/c that can accommodate 17.

    Seems very strange to me.


  • #3
    Cessna_Pilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 703 ✭✭✭Cessna_Pilot


    Media now saying there was 14 on board. No point in taking what those feckers are saying for granted though. For all we know no limits were exceeded and that it was a genuine unpreventable accident.


  • #4
    Flyer1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Flyer1


    I've heard the type involved was a PC12. In commuter config the PC12 can be kitted out for 12 folk including pilots. What they were doing with 14 or 17 on board is beyond me.


  • #5
    Run_to_da_hills
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    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Thats what I thought myself,coupled with the fact that it was reported as a 1500 km trip!!

    The fact that they were mostly children might,I say might, account for the weight factor, but I cannot recall any single engined a/c that can accommodate 17.

    Seems very strange to me.
    The Cessna 208 Caravan can seat up to 14 and is single engined, one crashed in Connemara in July 2007 killing two.


  • #6
    diverdriver
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    The Cessna Grand Caravan can take fourteen seated. It can take twenty one skydivers.
    When I first heard of the accident. I thought it must be a Caravan. I'm amazed it was a PC-12. With children on board. I wouldn't suppose it wouldn't be weight limited. Whatever the problem was it wasn't that.


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  • #7
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    The Cessna 208 Caravan can seat up to 14 and is single engined, one crashed in Connemara in July 2007 killing two.

    Didn't think it could take that many,that's what I thought it might be.


  • #8
    petergfiffin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭petergfiffin


    It could actually get a lot worse...apparently rescuers have recovered over 200 bodies and fear there could be more :rolleyes:


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