Grand Canyon Airlines Flight 6 is Otter Twin Otter de Havilland Canada DHC-6 which collided with Bell 206 Tech 2 helicopter sign over the Grand Canyon National Park on June 18, 1986. All 25 passengers and two board crews the plane was killed. It remains the deadliest accident involving helicopters on US soil, surpassing the crash of the Los Angeles Flight 841 Flight in 1968, which killed 23 people.
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Collision
On the morning of the Grand Canyon Airlines Canyon 6 crash took off from Grand Canyon National Park Airport at 8:55 am for an excursion flight over the Grand Canyon National Park with two pilots and 18 passengers; pilots operate their second flight for the day. At 9:13, a bell call from Bell 206 Tech 2 operated by Helitech took off from a corporate heliport in Tusayan, Arizona for a 30-minute sightseeing flight. At about 9:33 at an altitude of about 6,500 feet (2,000 m), Bell 206 and DHC-6 collide, with helicopters to the left of Twin Otter and two planes traveling around right angles to each other. The main rotor of the helicopter hit the nose landing gear and the tail of the Twin Otter. Bell's main rotor 206 was torn and crushed; and Twin Otter tail separated; causing both aircraft to fall. All 20 passengers and crew at Canyon 6, and the pilot and four passengers at Bell 206, were killed in the crash.
Maps Grand Canyon Airlines Flight 6
Cause
The National Transportation Safety Board found that the crew of both aircraft failed to 'see and avoid' each other, but could not determine why this occurred because of the lack of recorded flight data (no requirement for such recording for beautiful flights) being operated). Accident investigations have also found that the limited number of points of interest in the Grand Canyon that focus flights above these points increases the risk of collisions; and recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulates the separation of fixed-aircraft and helicopter flight routes. Following the accident, the FAA imposed changes to the operation of a beautiful flight over the Grand Canyon.
See also
- 1956 Grand Canyon air collision
References
External links
- The Aviation Network Aviation Synopsis
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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