Date: | Friday 29 November 1991 |
Time: | 11:14 |
Type: | Hawker Siddeley HS-748-272 Srs. 2A |
Owner/operator: | Air Creebec |
Registration: | C-GGOO |
MSN: | 1692 |
Year of manufacture: | 1971 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 35 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Rivière-au-Saumon, QC -
Canada
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Rivière-au-Saumon, QC |
Destination airport: | Quebec Airport, QC (YQB/CYQB) |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:The no. 2 engine exploded on takeoff. A fire erupted and the takeoff was aborted.
It was subsequently determined that the aircraft's water/methanol system had been serviced from a drum containing contaminated fluid. The drum had not been appropriately labelled.
Sources:
ICAO Adrep Summary 6/94 (#109)
Images:
![](/photos/wiki/1991/19911129_A748_C-GGOO_15415.jpg)
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Johannesburg International Airport (JNB); December 1976
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