The pilot’s “distorted perception of risk” prompted the departure of a converted Douglas DC3 on a visual flight rules (VFR) cargo flight in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) and the continuation of the flight until it crashed after several failed landing attempts, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) says.
The two flight crewmembers — the only people in the North Star Air DC3 Basler Turbo Conversions TP67 — were uninjured in the Dec. 3, 2019, crash near Sachigo Lake Airport in Ontario, Canada, but the airplane was substantially damaged.
In its final report on the accident, the TSB cited several causes and contributing factors, including that “the decision to depart on, and continue” a VFR flight in IMC “was influenced by a distorted perception of risk resulting from successful past experience in similar situations.”
The captain, who was the pilot flying, “likely experienced attentional narrowing” during the high-workload visual approac…
