Sorry, what are we talking about here? What happened in Milwaukee?
05 FEB 2006 Shorts 360 N3735W Air Cargo Carriers, Watertown, WI (USA), 3(3)
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ASN ACCIDENT DIGEST 2006-01
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Date: 05 FEB 2006
Time: ca 17:00 local time
Type: Shorts 360 Variant 100
Operator: Air Cargo Carriers
Registration: N3735W
Msn / C/n: SH.3735
Year built: 1988
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67R turboprop engines
Crew: 3 fatalities / 3 on board
Passengers: 0 fatalities / 0 on board
Total: 3 fatalities / 3 on board
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: near Watertown, WI (USA)
Phase: En Route (ENR)
Nature: Photo
Departure airport: Milwaukee-General Mitchell Airport, WI (MKE)
Destination airport: Milwaukee-General Mitchell Airport, WI (MKE)
Two Air Cargo Carriers Shorts 360 cargo planes, N372AC and N3735W, departed Milwaukee (MKE) for a photo flight. Both aircraft collided in flight near Watertown. N3735W crashed into a field southeast of the intersection of Highway Q and Highway 19 and caught fire. The other Shorts carried out a forced landing at Juneau-Dodge County Airport, WI (UNU) where it skidded off the runway.
sources: FAA, Wisconsin State Journal
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AIRCRAFT PROFILE SHORTS 360
* Last fatal Shorts 360 hull-loss accident : 21 AUG 2004 Venezuelan Air Force FAV-1652, near Maracay, Venezuela- 30 fatalities
* Total number of Shorts 360 hull-losses: 11
* 4th worst Shorts 360 accident
* Survival rate for all fatal Shorts 360 accidents: on average 20,9% of all occupants survived fatal accidents
* history of airplane msn SH.3735:
– G-14-3735 Shorts (10 FEB 1988, first flight)
– G-BOEI Shorts (MAR 1988)
– VR-BKL Philippine Air Lines (AUG 1988)
– VP-BKL Philippine Air Lines (JUN 1997)
– D-CFLX Rheinland Air Service-RAS (MAY 1999)
– G-BOEI BAC Express (FEB 2002)
– N3735W Air Cargo Carriers (NOV 2005)
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OPERATOR PROFILE AIR CARGO CARRIERS
Cargo airline based in Milwaukee.
* founded: 1986
* fleet: 1 Dassault Falcon 20, 1 Shorts Skyvan, 1 Swearingen Merlin, 16 Shorts 330, 17 Shorts 360
* 1st airliner hull-loss accident
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