NTSB Ketchikan, AK Animation

This animation explores a number of aspects of the midair collision, which occurred on May 13, 2019 about 1221 Alaska Daylight Time. The accident involved a float-equipped de Havilland DHC-2 (Beaver) airplane, N952DB, and a float-equipped de Havilland DHC-3 (Otter) airplane, N959PA, which collided in midair about 8 miles northeast of Ketchikan, Alaska.
The sequence of events was reconstructed based on information extracted from Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) tracking data provided by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), aircraft performance data, weather data, and data from the manufacturers of the equipment and systems on board the aircraft that related to ADS-B.
Map views were constructed with Google Earth backgrounds. Three dimensional animations were developed in Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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