An Alaska air tour operator’s safety culture — which “tacitly endorsed flying in hazardous weather” — was partly to blame for the 2015 crash of a de Havilland DHC-3 Otter into a tree-covered mountainside in clouds and mist, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says.
Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT), Cover Story, Safety Culture
‘Bend the Rules’
Company attitudes about operating in Alaska were cited in the NTSB report on the fatal crash of a sightseeing flight.