- Date
- January 21, 2025, 13:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Maripasoula, French Guiana
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- HB-FDUPilatus PC6
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern final: Loss of control in flight
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 200041
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Loss of control in flightAll aircraft: 5,002 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- HB-FDU
- Reported as
- Pilatus PC6 (B2H4)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 663
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- Yankee Lima Helicopteres
- Registered owner
- Yankee Lima Suisse SA
- Departed
- SOCA · Matoury
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- runway 7
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Injuries
- Serious
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Seat
- Left