September 2022 DHC-3 Mutiny Bay Tragedy Explained
On 04 September 2022, ten people lost their lives when a 55-year-old de Havilland DHC-3 Otter went down in the waters of Puget Sound’s Mutiny Bay off the coast of Whidbey Island. Comes now October 2023, and NTSB investigators have attributed the accident to a single defective component—the aircraft’s elevator actuator.