Pesawat Pilatus PC-12 America

The US authority was still investigating reasons for the fall of an aircraft in Montana, the USA, that killed 14 people. There was the assumption of this small aircraft the cargo surplus.

The aircraft Pilatus PC-12 this was drafted to carry the total 11 people, including the pilot and the copilot. Was like this was sent by Mark Rosenker, Pjs Chairman Dewan Keselamatan of the Nasional Transport in the press conference as being launched the daily Sydney Morning Herald, on Tuesday (24/3/2009). "We needed time to know him," said Rosenker.

However in fact, this aircraft carried 14 people, including 7 children. This unlucky aircraft fell and was burnt in the area of the funeral around 150 metre from the small airport in Butte, Montana on Sunday, March 22 local time. This aircraft was believed in will bring his passengers for the trip ski in Montana. Investigation will take place was difficult because of this aircraft to not have the recorder of the cockpit voice or the flight data recorder.

Moreover evidently this aircraft did not have certification to carry commercial passengers. This aircraft left from Oroville, California headed Bozeman, Montana. However the pilot afterwards changed the aim to Butte and there the aircraft fell was not far from the Bert Mooney Airport in Butte. As in the case of thousands of small US airports, this Butte airport did not have the control of the radar.