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Dive Team Hopes To Raise 1959 Wreck
An RCMP dive team is expected to attempt the recovery of a Cessna 180 that crashed 59 years ago on a northern Saskatchewan lake with two men on board. Pilot Ray Gran and conservation officer […]
Year: 2018
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Aireon Alert Registration Open
Registration is now open for Aireon Alert, a free global tracking system that can provide up-to-the-second position reports of any airline aircraft equipped with 1090mHz ADS-B. Aerion, which is majority owned by Nav Canada, is […]
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Arrow Model Recovered
Crews have recovered the first model of the Avro Arrow from Lake Ontario. The models, which were used to record the flight characteristics of the CF-105 in free flight tests in the 1950s, were propelled […]
TSB Incidents
Air Canada – Boeing 777-300 – Oil Leak – Engine Shut Down
2018-08-24 C-FIVS, a Boeing 777-300 aircraft operated by Air Canada, was conducting flight ACA001 from Toronto/Lester B. Pearson Intl, ON (CYYZ) to Tokyo/Haneda, Japan (RJTT) with 15 crew members and 365 passengers on board. During […]
TSB Incidents
Air Canada – Airbus A320 – Disruptive Passenger – Flight Diverted
2018-08-16 C-FGJI, an Airbus A320 aircraft operated by Air Canada, was conducting flight ACA172 from Edmonton Intl, AB (CYEG) to Toronto/Lester B. Pearson Intl, ON (CYYZ) with a crew of 5 and 126 passengers on […]
TSB Incidents
Harv’s Air – Beech D95A – Landing Gear Failure – Belly Landing
2018-08-16 C-FVJC, a Harv’s Air Service, Beech D95A was on a local training flight at the Steinbach, MB airport (CJB3) with a student and instructor pilot on board. While on approach and the landing gear […]
TSB Incidents
Challenger II Ultralight – on Floats – Wind Gust caused Crash on Takeoff
2018-08-13 C-IJQP, a Challenger II ultralight on amphibious floats took off from the St. Lawrence River near Downie Island in a northerly direction. The aircraft had just become airborne as it passed the end of […]
TSB Incidents
Glastar Amateur Built on floats – Flipped on Landing
2018-08-13 C-GODM, an amateur built Glastar on floats, was landing at Peninsula Lake with the pilot and one passenger on board. During touchdown the right float dug in and the aircraft flipped. The pilot and […]
TSB Incidents
WestJet Encore – DHC-8-400 – Hydraulic Leak – Smoke
2018-08-04 C-FENY, a WestJet Encore Bombardier DHC-8-400 aircraft (WEN3480) was on route from Lester B. Pearson Intl – Toronto (CYYZ) to MacDonald-Cartier Intl – Ottawa (CYOW). As the aircraft climbed through 10000 feet ASL the […]
TSB Incidents
Expedition Helicopters – Bell 206B – Rotor Contacted Trailer – Separated From Helicopter
2018-08-04 C-GJSZ, a Bell 206B Helicopter, operated by Expedition Helicopters was maneuvering at the operator’s base located in Cochrane, Ontario when a main rotor blade contacted a covered trailer. The main rotor and transmission separated […]
TSB Incidents
Georgian Bay Airways – Float Equipped FBA-2C1 – Crashed Into Lake
2018-07-30 C-FKNS, a float equipped, Found Aircraft Canada FBA-2C1, commercially operated by Georgian Bay Airways, departed Toronto Billy Bishop Water Aerodrome destined for Parry Sound Harbour. During low level maneuvering in the Lake Muskoka area, […]
TSB Incidents
Piper PA-28-140 – Mishap on Takeoff – Crash – Pilot Killed
2018-07-05 C-GVZP, a privately-operated Piper PA-28-140, departed runway 29 at the Sechelt Aerodrome (CAP3) on a local sight-seeing flight with the pilot and three passengers. The wind was variable and gusty, predominately from the west. […]
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John Sessions The Pilot
Historic Flight Foundation Founder John Sessions was the pilot of a de Havilland Dragon Rapide that crashed at Abbotsford on Aug. 11. Sessions flies everything in his extensive collection and was checked out in a […]
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90-Seat Q400 Approved
Bombardier now builds the largest capacity turboprop airliner after Transport Canada approved a 90-seat interior configuration for the Q400. “With increasing growth in the number of passengers per departure in the turboprop market, we are […]
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Abbotsford Crash Pilot Identified
The pilot of the 1930s vintage biplane that crashed shortly after the Abbotsford Airshow last week has been identified as John Sessions, the founder of the Historic Flight Foundation and an experienced pilot. He and […]