Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
20APR2005 at 1850LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Registration
 
N926AU
Location
 
48 km NE of Chico
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
Chico - Chico
 
Construction number
 
185-5171
Year of manufacture
 
1963
     
Crew on board
 
3
Pax on board
 
0
Crew fatalities
 
3
Pax fatalities
 
0
Other fatalities
 
0
Total fatalities
 
3

Circumstances
   
 
The crew was performing a training flight based on the Orion Tanker's program. While overflying Lassen National Forest, 48 kilometres North-East of Chico, the crew lost control of the aircraft which crashed and burned. All occupants were killed.
   


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