Incident · 2006-04-05

NTSB case DEN06IA056 · Swearingen SA226TC · Part 135

What the record says

Event date: 2006-04-05
Event type: Incident
Highest injury level: No injuries
Aircraft: Swearingen SA226TC (N770S)
Operating rule: Part 135
Operator: operator not named in the NTSB record

Probable cause

the failure of the elevator down cable due to an improperly routed cable by unknown maintenance personnel. A contributing factor was the improper inspection of the elevator cable by the operator's maintenance personnel.

Source: NTSB case DEN06IA056

Flight 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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