Pilatus PC-6 (Porter & Turbo Porter) crash, May 30, 2008 (2 killed)
Pilatus PC-6 (Porter & Turbo Porter) accident on May 30, 2008 near Lillo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain with 2 fatalities. Cause: The wing and tail were...
- Date: May 30, 2008
- Aircraft: Pilatus PC-6 (Porter & Turbo Porter)
- Location: Lillo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
- Fatalities: 2
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: The wing and tail were overloaded in a turn within severe turbulence inside a storm. Neither the operator nor the jump supervisors had been aware of the storm north of the aerodrome.
A Pilatus Porter carrying a pilot and ten skydivers lost its left wing and horizontal stabilizer in flight after entering a violent storm during a turn toward the drop zone. Nine skydivers escaped by parachute. The pilot and one skydiver died when the aircraft crashed and burned near Lillo.