{"id":18093,"date":"2015-10-21T20:35:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T03:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/weight-cited-in-13-plane-crash-that-killed-10\/"},"modified":"2015-10-21T20:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T03:35:35","slug":"weight-cited-in-13-plane-crash-that-killed-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/weight-cited-in-13-plane-crash-that-killed-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight cited in &#8217;13 plane crash that killed 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> The pilot of an air taxi that crashed on Alaska\u2019s Kenai Peninsula in 2013, killing all 10 people on board, underestimated the weight of the plane\u2019s cargo, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report issued Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The probable cause of the crash was the operator\u2019s failure to account for about 420 additional pounds of unspecified cargo, which led to loading and operating the de Havilland DHC3 Otter outside its weight and center-of-gravity limits, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContributing to the accident was the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s failure to require weight and balance documentation for this type of air taxi flight,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p>The de Havilland DHC 3 Otter stalled, crashed and burned shortly after taking off from the airport in Soldotna, about 75 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Kenai Peninsula. The report says the airplane was destroyed by both the impact and a subsequent fire.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found a video of the takeoff on a passenger\u2019s smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>An analysis of the video indicated that right after takeoff, the plane\u2019s angle of attack increased as the plane\u2019s speed decreased from 68 mph to 44 mph in about 8.5 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The video showed the plane appear to stall at about 11 seconds after takeoff. The plane rolled right-wing down and hit the ground several seconds later.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the pilot, Walter \u201cWillie\u201d Rediske, also killed were two families from Greenville, South Carolina: Melet and Kimberly Antonakos and their three children, ages 11 to 16; and Chris and Stacey McManus and their two teenage children.<\/p>\n<p>They died during what was to be the last leg of a 10-day vacation. The families were booked on a flight leaving Soldotna to visit a remote bear-viewing lodge in Chinitna Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to reach Rediske Air weren\u2019t immediately successful Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 The pilot of an air taxi that crashed on Alaska\u2019s Kenai Peninsula in 2013, killing all 10 people on board, underestimated the weight of the plane\u2019s cargo, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report issued Wednesday. The probable cause of the crash was the operator\u2019s failure to account for about 420 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":18094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18093"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}