De Havilland DHC6-33 accident near Moorea, FP
On August 9, 2007, a De Havilland DHC6-33 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Moorea, FP. 20 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- August 9, 2007
- Place
- Moorea, FP
- Aircraft
- De Havilland DHC6-33 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 20 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 17.533°S, 149.833°W
- NTSB ID
- 20080102X00003
Conditions
- Local time
- 10:00 PM
- Light
- Daylight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC)
- Visibility
- 6 mi
From Wikipedia
Air Moorea Flight 1121 was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter which crashed into the ocean shortly after takeoff from Moorea Airport on Moorea Island in French Polynesia on 9 August 2007 killing all 20 people on board.
It was bound for Tahiti's Faaʻa International Airport on a regular 7-minute service, one of the shortest in the world, scheduled 40 times a day. The crash resulted from loss of control due to failure of the airplane's elevator cable. Frequent takeoff and landing are believed to have been a major factor in the crash, because of wear and tear on the elevator cables, inspected only at fixed time intervals, regardless of usage. Another factor may have been jet-blast from large planes pushing back from the ramp at Fa'a'ā International.
Text from Wikipedia, “Air Moorea Flight 1121”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
