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Cockpit of a C-212, February 2004. The CASA C-212 Aviocar is a turboprop-powered STOL-capable cargo aircraft. In terms of its basic configuration, it has a high-mounted wing, a boxy fuselage, and a conventional tail. The C-212 has been designed to operate in austere environments for extended periods without ground support apparatus. [17]
On 2 September 2011, a CASA C-212 Aviocar military transport of the Chilean Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea de Chile, FACH) on a flight from Santiago to Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, crashed into the sea while manoeuvring to land. All 21 passengers and crew on board were killed.
On 19 June 2010, a CASA C-212 Aviocar transport aircraft crashed on a flight from Yaoundé, Cameroon, to Yangadou, Republic of the Congo, killing all eleven people on board. Among the victims were the entire board of Australian mining conglomerate Sundance Resources , including mining executive Ken Talbot .
Here’s what we know so far about how the events of Friday afternoon unfolded.
The flight was operated by Fischer Brothers Aviation, doing business as Northwest Airlink, and was operated by a CASA C-212 aircraft. On March 4, 1987, the plane crashed while attempting to land. Nine of the 19 passengers and crew on board were killed in the crash. [1] [2]
The investigation showed that the cause of the crash was the inexperienced flight crew flying an unfamiliar route and the lack of adequate terrain clearance. While making a sharp one hundred eighty degree turn the CASA 212 stalled and collided with the mountain range.
Colbert was 10 years old and living in Charleston, S.C., at the time of the 1974 crash. Now, at 60, he says he has trouble remembering much about his life prior to the accident.
An aerial photo of the crash path of Eastern Flight 212, which crash-landed and plowed through a cornfield and a patch of woods on Sept. 11, 1974. Smoke filled the air, and snarling flames were ...