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Is Two safer than One? No!
Is Two safer than One? No!
Date
NTSB No
Registration
Fatalities
Injuries
FAR 135/ commercial
Day/
night
night
Cloud base ft.
Visibility
st miles
st miles
Comment
16/05/97
1997-013
N96WF
0
0
No
Day
N/a
VFR
USA: compressor stall during landing flare; no damage. BOV seal wrong, Q/A improved.
18/05/98
TSB
A98A0067
A98A0067
C-FKAL
0
3
Yes
Day
450
IMC
New Foundland, Canada; cruise FL220, IFSD; dead-stick landing in swamp in IMC; total loss. Oil system failure, no findings
11/12/98
1998-104
C-FMPA
0
0
Gov’t
Night
N/a
N/a
Yellow Knife, Canada, IFSD after t/o, turn-back, land on rwy, no damage. Engine fuel manifold clip missing; Q/A improved.
08/07/01
Russia
No number
No number
N66ONR
0
0
No
Day
<100
IMC
Sea of Okhotsk, Russia; cruise, compressor stall, vibration with rapid increase of ITT; IFSD; ditching along swells of approx 8-12 feet, all on board exited safely into life-raft through main door; no findings, a/c lost.
16/10/02
NTSB
NYC03FA008
NYC03FA008
N96WF
0
0
No
Day
700
IMC
Trenton, NJ; IFSD after t/o, engine smoke; return, overrun end rwy, electrical discharge damage (EDD) on nr.1 bearing; severe a/c damage. Mod. In testing
Table 4.0 Loss of power events: Pilatus PC-12
Accident Data