De Havilland DHC-2 N129WA

17 October 1974 · Kassan, Alaska, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 17 October 1974 at about 08:50 local time, a De Havilland DHC-2 registered N129WA, operated by Webber Airline, was involved in an accident during in flight near Kassan, Alaska, United States. 7 people were on board and 5 died, 2 were seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 17 October 1974 at 08:50
Classification: Accident
Location: Kassan, Alaska, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: De Havilland DHC-2
Registration: N129WA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Webber Airline
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Coffman Cove, Alas
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-4020

People

5 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
7	5	2	0	0

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

ENTERED LOCAL FOG COND SHORTLY AFTER TKOF.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No position. The source record has no latitude and longitude, and it names no place or airport that could be looked up, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-4020, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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