The passengers who boarded a Cessna on Saturday expected they would use their parachutes — but not quite the way
The passengers who boarded a Cessna on Saturday expected they would use their parachutes — but not quite the way things turned out.
The Federal Aviation Administration said that the single-engine Cessna C206 that took off on a skydiving flight crashed near Butler Memorial Airport in Missouri at about 1 p.m., according to KCTV-TV.
The Bates County Sheriff’s Office stated that when first responders arrived, they found the wreckage in a hay field.
The website Aviation Safety Network, which allows user reporting/input a la Wikipedia, described the incident this way: “A Cessna U206C Super Skywagon (Turbine Conversions Pratt Ltd Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20 550 hp turbine conversion) experienced a Skydiver premature parachute deployment at 14,000 msl damaging the tail section.
