Accident · 2006-07-02
What the record says
- Event date
- 2006-07-02
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Minor injury
- Aircraft
- Kennedy Chinook Plus 2 (N9077M)
- Operating rule
- Part 91
- Operator
- operator not named in the NTSB record
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain sufficient airspeed to avoid an aerodynamic stall during takeoff/initial climb, which resulted in an uncontrolled descent and collision with trees. A factor associated with the accident was an inadvertent stall.
Source: NTSB case ANC06LA087Flight crew
Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.
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