Accident · 1997-06-13
What the record says
- Event date
- 1997-06-13
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Serious injury
- Aircraft
- McDonnell Douglas MDHC-369E (N765KV)
- Operating rule
- Part 133
- Operator
- operator not named in the NTSB record
Probable cause
The failure of the crewmember to use the necessary safety equipment, and his subsequent fall from an elevated platform. A factor was the crewmember's distraction with an animal.
Source: NTSB case ATL97LA086Flight 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.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.