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Cessna Caravan Crash Under Investigation

Steve Scott

Monday, October 15th, 2007

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National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Cessna Aircraft investigators are probing the Oct. 7 crash of a Cessna Caravan 208 that killed 10 people returning from a skydiving event. The single-pilot aircraft ferrying nine skydivers from Star, Idaho, to Shelton, Washington, located south of Seattle, went down in a steep nosedive into the rugged Cascade Mountains, said the local sheriff and FAA officials. The crash follows warnings issued by the FAA in recent years regarding the…

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