US Recent Aviation Accident
| Title | Collision with Terrain of Big Island | ||||||||||
| Description | Collision with Terrain of Big Island Air flight 58, near Volcano, Hawaii, September 25, 1999 | NTSB Report Number | AAB-01-02, adopted on 9/26/2001 | NTIS Report Number | null | ||||||
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HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn September 25, 1999, about 1726 Hawaiian standard time,1 Big Island Air flight 58, a Piper PA-31-350 (Chieftain), N411WL, crashed on the northeast slope of the Mauna Loa volcano2 near Volcano, Hawaii. The pilot and all nine passengers on board were killed, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a postimpact fire. The sightseeing tour flight was operating under 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 135 as an on-demand air taxi operation. A visual flight rules (VFR) flight plan was filed, and visual meteorological conditions (VMC) existed at the Keahole-Kona International Airport (KOA), Kona, Hawaii, from which the airplane departed about 1622. The investigation determined that instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) prevailed in the vicinity of the accident site. for more details | |||||||||||
