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Date: | Wednesday 9 August 1961 |
Time: | 14:02 |
Type: | Curtiss C-46 Super C |
Owner/operator: | Nordair |
Registration: | CF-HEI |
MSN: | 22419 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 9 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Sarcpa Lake Airstrip, NU -
Canada
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Sarcpa Lake Airstrip, NU |
Narrative:The C-46 struck the ground short of the runway with its main wheels. The airplane landed but the starboard landing gear collapsed and the C-46 went off the runway.
The airplane was arriving at Intermediate DEW line Site 29, CAM-F, Sarcpa Lake.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "During the final approach, the pilot-in-command allowed the aircraft to strike the ground short of the approach end of the runway and below the runway level."
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Images:
photo (c) Brian Jeffrey, via Paul Kelley; Sarcpa Lake, NT; August 1961
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