Joy General Aviation Flight 6005
Cessna 208B Caravan · Crashed shortly after takeoff due to pilot error
From Shanghai Jinshan Floating Airport, Jinshan, Shanghai, China to Zhoushan Putuoshan International Airport (HSN)
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR16RA151
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 10
- Survivors
- 5
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 5
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cessna 208B Caravan
- Flight
- JGA6005
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 208
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- B-10FW
- Operator
- Joy General Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From Shanghai Jinshan Floating Airport, Jinshan, Shanghai, ChinaTo Zhoushan Putuoshan International Airport (HSN)
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Takeoff
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Unknown or undetermined
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
Joy General Aviation Flight 6005 (JGA6005) was a charter flight from Jinshan, Shanghai to Zhoushan, China. On 20 July 2016, the aircraft collided with No. 7385 bridge on the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway. The first officer and four passengers were killed, with 5 other occupants suffering injuries.
Accident
At 12:19, the plane took off from Jinshan Airport. Moments later, the plane suddenly climbed sharply and turned left. According to one of the surviving passengers, Wu Liangliang, a reporter of the Chinese news company KNews, one of the pilots shouted, "Bridge!" shortly before impact. The aircraft then impacted the No. 7385 bridge at 12:20 pm, linking the cities of Shanghai and Hangzhou, China.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
Shortly after the crash, the airline was ordered to suspend all flight activities. The flight recorders were recovered and sent for analysis. The Civil Aviation Administration of China opened an investigation into the cause of the crash. Mechanical failure was quickly ruled out, with investigators concluding that the aircraft was in good working order and was airworthy. The Civil Aviation Administration of China concluded that pilot error was the cause of the crash, with the captain not following instructions and had taken off 395 meters past the end of the runway.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Joy General Aviation Flight 6005” (revision 1369364955, retrieved 2026-09-18) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out. Read the article
NTSB narrative
On July 20, 2016 about 0422 Coordinated Universal Time, a float equipped Cessna 208, B10-FW, collided with a bridge shortly after takeoff from Jinshan City Beach, Shanghai, P.R. China. The airplane was operated by Avic Joy General Aviation under the pertinent civil regulations of China. The airplane was substantially damaged and five of the ten people onboard the airplane sustained fatal injuries.
The accident is being investigated by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The NTSB has designated a U.S. Accredited Representative under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13, as the state of manufacture for the aircraft to assist the CAAC in its investigation.
Further information pertaining to this accident should be directed to:
Aircraft Accident Investigation Division Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) East China Regional Administration (ECRA) China Tel: +86 20 8613 1650
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Wikipedia article: Joy General Aviation Flight 6005
- Revision
- 1369364955 · 2026-08-14 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q28409800
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record WPR16RA151
- Event ID
- 20160725X51721
- Case number
- WPR16RA151
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Joy General Aviation Flight 6005" (page 83704154, revision 1369364955); merged with NTSB case WPR16RA151 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record WPR16RA151
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Joy General Aviation Flight 6005" and NTSB case WPR16RA151, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.