Beechcraft 100 King Air crash, Dec 7, 1997, Sioux Lookout
Beechcraft 100 King Air accident on December 7, 1997 near Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada with no fatalities. Cause: A high, steep final approach in...
- Date: December 7, 1997
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 100 King Air
- Location: Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: A high, steep final approach in which the rate of descent was not fully arrested before touchdown, resulting in a hard landing on the left main gear.
A Voyageur Airways King Air returning empty from a medevac made a high, steep final approach to Sioux Lookout in freezing drizzle and landed hard on the left main gear. The scissors failed and the rear spar of the left wing was found cracked in an overload. No one was injured.