Accident · 2003-07-13

What the record says

Event date

2003-07-13

Event type

Accident

Highest injury level

Fatal injury

Aircraft

Cessna 402C (N314AB)

Operating rule

Part 135

Operator

Air Sunshine, Inc. Operator named in NTSB report

Operated by (per NTSB report)

Air Sunshine, Inc.

Probable cause

the in-flight failure of the right engine and the pilot’s failure to adequately manage the airplane’s performance after the engine failed. The right engine failure resulted from inadequate maintenance that was performed by Air Sunshine’s maintenance personnel during undocumented maintenance. Contributing to the passenger fatalities was the pilot’s failure to provide an emergency briefing after the right engine failed.

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.