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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.
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Here’s what we know so far about how the events of Friday afternoon unfolded.
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 .
The pilot flying was 45-year-old Captain David Sherer, employed by Fischer Bros. Aviation in March 1970, he had a total of 17,953 hours of flight time of which 3,144 hours were on the C-212. The pilot monitoring was 26-year-old First Officer Shawn Manningham, employed by Fischer Bros. Aviation in July 1986, he had a total of 1,593 flight hours ...
Blackwater 61 was the callsign of a CASA 212, registration N960BW, operated by Presidential Airways Inc, the aviation subsidiary of the private security contractor Blackwater USA, that crashed in the mountains of remote central Afghanistan on November 27, 2004.
For the passengers of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 — headed from Charleston, S.C., to Charlotte on Sept. 11, 1974 — nothing seemed wrong at 7:33 a.m. ... of the crash path of Eastern Flight ...