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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.
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.
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 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]
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 ...
American Eagle Flight 5452: Mayagüez: Puerto Rico: CASA C-212 Aviocar: The aircraft crashed during approach likely due to loss of thrust from one of the engines attributed to poor maintenance. Contributing to the accident was the pilot flying an unstabilized approach. March 4, 1987 9 20 10 Northwest Airlink Flight 2268: Romulus: Michigan: CASA ...