Casa 212 Aviocar crash, Mar 4, 1987 (9 killed), Detroit-M...
Casa 212 Aviocar accident on March 4, 1987 near Detroit-Metropolitan-Wayne County, Michigan, United States with 9 fatalities. Cause: The captain could...
- Date: March 4, 1987
- Aircraft: Casa 212 Aviocar
- Location: Detroit-Metropolitan-Wayne County, Michigan, United States
- Fatalities: 9
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The captain could not recover from an asymmetric power condition at low speed after deliberately using propeller beta mode to slow and descend on final approach. Contributing factors included an unstabilized visual approach and a departing DC9 on the runway.
A CASA C212 Aviocar (N160FB) operated by Fischer Brothers Aviation as Northwest Airlink crashed while landing at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport on 4 March 1987. It yawed left, skidded right into ground support vehicles and caught fire, and nine of the 19 people aboard were killed.