Swearingen SA227 Metro III crash, Jan 19, 1988 (9 killed)
Swearingen SA227 Metro III accident on January 19, 1988 near Durango-La Plata County, Colorado, United States with 9 fatalities. Cause: Flight crew...
- Date: January 19, 1988
- Aircraft: Swearingen SA227 Metro III
- Location: Durango-La Plata County, Colorado, United States
- Fatalities: 9
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Flight crew error during an unstabilized approach: the first officer flew the approach below the published profile, the captain monitored ineffectively, and the captain performance was degraded by cocaine use.
Trans-Colorado Airlines flight 2286, operated as Continental Express, was a Fairchild Swearingen Metro III flying from Denver to Durango. It struck snow covered mountains near Bayfield on a VOR/DME approach to Durango in deteriorating weather, killing nine of the 17 people on board.