More Than 400 Pages Of Documents To Be Released Wednesday

As part of its continuing investigation into an accident involving an air taxi flight in Soldotna, Alaska, last summer, the National Transportation Safety Board will open the public accident docket releasing more than 400 pages of documents on September 17.

On July 7, 2013, at 11:20 a.m. ADT, a de Havilland DHC-3 Otter operating as a 14 CFR Part 135 on-demand charter flight crashed shortly after takeoff from the airport in Soldotna, Alaska. The nine passengers and one commercial pilot were fatally injured; the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash fire.

The documents being released are factual in nature and do not provide any analysis. They include factual reports, interview transcripts, photographs, diagrams and other documents from the investigation. All of these materials will be made available at 11:00 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, September 17.

Additional material will be added to the docket as it becomes available. Analysis of the accident, along with conclusions and a determination of probable cause, will come when the final report on the investigation is completed.

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