Cessna 208 N9727F
6 August 2012 · Chula Vista, California, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 6 August 2012 at about 16:30 local time, a Cessna 208 registered N9727F, operated by Tactical Air Operations Inc, was involved in an accident near Chula Vista, California, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.
The record
- Date
- at 16:30
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Chula Vista, California, United States
- Nearest airport
- John Nichol's Field Airport (0CL3)
- Coordinates
- 32.6331, -116.8931
- Aircraft
- Cessna 208
- Registration
- N9727F
- Category
- Airplane
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Tactical Air Operations Inc
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Skydiving
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Chula vista → Chula vista
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- WPR12CA346
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to arrest the aircraft's sink rate on short final, which resulted in a hard landing.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.
Read the full NTSB narrative
The pilot said that, while on short final, the airplane experienced a sudden sink rate when the wind changed from a head wind to calm conditions. He was unable to arrest the sink rate even after power was applied because of the lag time for the airplane’s turbine engine to spool up. The airplane landed hard short of the runway. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the left side of the fuselage was dented and wrinkled, and the left main landing gear was bent inboard of the axle and was missing its brake assembly.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
Other Cessna 208 accidents
| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Nov 2012 | Cessna 208 | Snow Lake, Canada | Gobal Air Services | Fatal | 1 |
| 9 Jul 2012 | Cessna 208 | Sao Paulo, Brazil | - | Fatal | 1 |
| 18 Aug 2012 | Cessna 208B | Raeford, North Carolina, United States | Dugan, Briggs and Associates | No injuries | - |
| 26 Sep 2012 | Cessna 208B | Statesboro, Georgia, United States | DST, LLC | No injuries | - |
| 28 Feb 2012 | Cessna 208 | Manaus, Brazil | Cleiton Taxi Aereo Ltda. | Fatal | 1 |
| 30 Nov 2012 | Cessna 208B | Bryans Corner, Oklahoma, United States | Martinaire Aviation LLC | Minor injuries | - |
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| Date | Aircraft | Location | Operator | Outcome | Died |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Nov 2012 | Remos Acft Gmbh Flugzeugbau REMOS GX | Sacramento, California, United States | Greg Thomas Group Inc | No injuries | - |
| 21 Feb 2012 | Haycraft SPORT HORNET | Mariposa, California, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 20 Apr 2012 | Piper PA-18-150 | Sierraville, California, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 19 Feb 2012 | Aeronca 7BCM | Woodland, California, United States | Red Sky Aviation, LLC | No injuries | - |
| 27 May 2012 | Beechcraft B36TC | Santa Ynez, California, United States | - | No injuries | - |
| 20 Nov 2012 | Cessna 210 | San Rafael, California, United States | Zachariah Kimsey | No injuries | - |