Crash of a De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 at Kingston AFB: 2 killed
Date & Time:
May 17, 1978 at 0740 LT
Registration:
JDFT-6
Survivors:
No
Schedule:
Kingston - Kingston
MSN:
531
YOM:
1977
Crew on board:
2
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
2
Circumstances:
The crew was completing a local training mission at Up Park Camp Airbase in Kingston. Following two successful landings, the crew initiated a third approach with the left engine voluntarily inoperative to simulate a failure. On final, the airplane banked left then lost height and crashed in flames on a cricket pitch close to the airfield. The aircraft was destroyed and both pilots were killed.
