ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334817
| Date: | Thursday 29 September 1955 |
| Time: | 13:10 |
| Type: |  Avro 685 York C.1 |
| Owner/operator: | Associated Airways |
| Registration: | CF-HMV |
| MSN: | |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Merlin |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 180 km N of Beaverlodge, SK -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | |
| Yellowknife Airport, NT (YZF/CYZF) |
The Avro York was returning to Yellowknife after delivering supplies at a Distant Early Warning (DEW) radar line site when it was ditched in the Thoa River due to fuel exhaustion. The airplane partially submerged but both pilot got out safely. The water was too cold to swim to the shore, but they were able to climb onto a wing flap. They were not able to recover any emergency equipment or food. The captain died within two days. The co-pilot was found alive by a search-and-rescue plane after ten days.
Sources:
Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph - Oct 12, 1955
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