The families of four cruise passengers killed in a floatplane crash near Ketchikan last year are suing Holland America Line in federal court. They’re also suing the floatplane operator and the estate of the pilot.
This photo shot from the left side of the plane showing a portion of Ella Lake is timestamped 10:47 a.m., three minutes before the crash.
Just over a year ago, a bright yellow-and-blue DeHavilland Beaver floatplane crashed into treetops on a steep slope in Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness, about 12 miles northeast of Ketchikan. The crash killed the pilot and all five passengers aboard, who had arrived in the region on the Holland America ship Nieuw Amsterdam.was filed Aug. 1 in the Western District of Washington in Seattle.
“In that case, the NTSB, the National Transportation Safety Board, had actually written a letter to the cruise ship industry, including Holland America, warning that the schedules of the cruise ships could actually be contributing to this dangerous condition whereby you are having so many crashes and fatalities,” she said.the operator in the 2015 case, Promech Air, had a culture that encouraged pilots to fly in hazardous weather — in part because of scheduling pressures from cruise lines.
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