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Date: | Sunday 22 March 1959 |
Time: | |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver |
Owner/operator: | Buchan’s Mining Co Ltd |
Registration: | CF-GYT |
MSN: | 182 |
Year of manufacture: | 1951 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Near Hinds Lake, 10 mi. NW of Buchans, NL -
Canada
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Gander, NFL |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Crashed into a side of a hill when lost height due to heavy icing after taking off from a nearby lake. Pilot and five hunters survived uninjured.
Sources:
The Calgary Herald 24 March 1959, p32
Edmonton Journal 24 March 1959, p5
http://www.dhc-2.com/id956.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-Oct-2017 20:38 |
TB |
Added |
13-Jan-2018 10:53 |
TB |
Updated [Source] |
14-Jan-2022 11:42 |
Cobar |
Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Source] |