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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 July 29, 2022, a CASA C-212 Aviocar from Raeford West Airport made an emergency landing and subsequently slid off runway 23L due to its lack of right landing gear. On approach, the 23-year old co-pilot, Charles Hew Crooks, exited the plane over Fuquay-Varina and subsequently died.
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 ...
Here’s what we know so far about how the events of Friday afternoon unfolded.
1st Maritime Patrol Naval Air Squadron – operating CASA C-212PM; 1st Early Warning and Reconnaissance Naval Air Squadron – operating E-2C Hawkeye 2000; Naval Aviation School – operating MD 500, Robinson R22, Schweizer 300, Zlín Z 42; Campeche Naval Air Base, Campeche. 5th Air Mobility, Observation and Transport Naval Air Squadron ...
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 .
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