Key Lime Air Flight 308
| Key Lime Air Flight 308 | |
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.jpg) A similar machine from the Key Lime Air |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Loss of control and structural failure |
| place | 3.4 miles east-southeast of Camilla , Georgia , United States
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| date | 5th December 2016 |
| Fatalities | 1 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
Swearingen SA227-AC Metro III
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| operator |
Key Lime Air
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| Mark |
N765FA
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| Departure airport |
Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport , Florida , United States
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| Destination airport |
Southwest Georgia Regional Airport , Albany , Georgia , United States
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| Passengers | 0 |
| crew | 1 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The Key Lime Air flight 308 (flight number IATA : KG308 , ICAO : LYM308 , call sign: KEY LIME 308 ) was a cargo flight of Key Lime Air from Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport in Florida for Southwest Georgia Regional Airport in Georgia on the fifth December 2016, on which a Swearingen SA227-AC Metro III broke apart after losing control in the air and crashed, killing the pilot present on board.
plane
The machine was a Swearingen SA227-AC Metro built in 1990 with the factory number AC-765 . The machine was delivered to Air Nelson on November 26, 1990 , where it was registered with the aircraft registration number ZK-NSI . Key Lime Air took over the machine on September 25, 2003 and registered it with the registration number N765FA . The twin-engine regional transport aircraft was equipped with two turboprop engines of the type Garrett TPE331-11U-611G equipped. By the time of the accident, the machine had completed 24,233 operating hours.
pilot
The only crew member on board was a 39-year-old pilot who had a cumulative total flight experience of 11,133 hours. His flying experience with machines of the type Swearingen SA-227 Metro amounted to 4,670 flight hours, of which he had completed 4,647 hours in the role of pilot flying .
the accident
The plane took off from Panama City , Florida at 8:54 p.m. local time for a flight to Albany , Georgia . When the machine was over Georgia airspace, the air traffic controller warned the pilot of moderate to heavy rainfall along the machine's planned route. He suggested an alternative route, on which the pilot would have had to fly 70 nautical miles to the northeast in order to avoid the most difficult weather conditions. The pilot replied that he had enough fuel for such a diversion, but concluded that after the descent to 3,000 feet, he wanted to see what the weather radar would show. Shortly thereafter, the pilot informed the air traffic controller that he intended to return to Tallahassee International Airport in Florida. The machine then sank from 7,000 feet to 3,700 feet until radar and radio contact was lost.
Accident investigation
The machine crashed near Camilla , Georgia . The wreck was scattered over a large area that included a cotton field and thick forest. The debris field was approximately 2,640 feet long and 1,500 feet wide. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were able to determine that the machine broke apart in midair prior to the crash.
root cause
The cause of the accident was the knowledgeable decision of the pilot to initiate the descent into an area in which the weather conditions are known to prevail and the decision to continue this descent. As a result, there was a spatial disorientation, a loss of control and finally the breakdown of the machine.
swell
- Accident report SA-227 Metro, N765FA on the Aviation Safety Network
- Operational history of the machine on planelogger.com