YV-478C
We’re still collecting data for this aircraft. Routes appear once we’ve seen it fly enough times.
Safety history
- November 28, 1989Accident
The pilots were making a visual approach at night to RWY 10 from a right downwind. The pilots descended the airplane through a scud layer on final and initially contacted the ground well short of the runway. The pilot pitched up and added full power, but one main gear separated as it hit the side of the hill below the runway. The airplane then rolled inverted and impacted the runway threshold upside down. Still inverted, it slid across the grass onto an adjacent taxiway with a substantial extern