Incident Overview
Date: Sunday 16 June 1996
Aircraft Type: Shorts SC.7 Skyvan 3-400
Owner/operator: Pink Aviation Services
Registration Number: OE-FDI
Location: Hoogeveen –
ÿ Netherlands
Phase of Flight: En route
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Component Affected: EnginesEngines
Category: Accident
A Skyvan aircraft experienced a catastrophic failure during a Para dropping flight at Hoogeveen, resulting in a forced landing in a potato field. The incident stemmed from a previously undetected fuel calculation error, leading to immediate engine failure and subsequent fuel exhaustion.A Skyvan aircraft experienced a catastrophic failure during a Para dropping flight at Hoogeveen, resulting in a forced landing in a potato field. The incident stemmed from a previously undetected fuel calculation error, leading to immediate engine failure and subsequent fuel exhaustion.
Description
The Skyvan was hired for Para dropping purposes at Hoogeveen. In order to carry the maximum number of paras, a calculation was made prior to every flight in order to establish the acceptable minimum amount of fuel for the flight. During the 6th flight that day both engines quit while climbing. All paras were ordered to jump immediately. Thinking they had an engine failure, the crew tried to light one engine, but didn’t succeed. A forced landing was carried out in a potato-field 500 m short of Hoogeveen Airport. PROBALE CAUSE: Fuel exhaustion. Two days prior to the accident a mistake was made in the fuel-calculation. The mistake went unnoticed because the calculations were not checked against the actual amount of fuel.
Primary Cause
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