ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 146491
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| Date: | Sunday 30 November 1958 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Sikorsky CH-126 (H-34A) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) |
| Registration: | 9634 |
| MSN: | 58-224 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Lake Winnipeg near Manigotagan, MB -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ambulance |
| Departure airport: | Bloodvein Reservation, Manitoba |
| Pine Falls, Manitoba | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The 111 KU helicopter was tasked for a civil ambulance flight to a northern First Nation Reservation. The H-34A helicopter and its three man crew proceeded to Pine Falls, Manitoba, where they picked up a doctor before flying north to the Bloodvein Reservation. There, they picked up a local citizen that guided them to the small community of Rabbit Point. A native mother and child had been severly burned in a house fire and required evacuation. The pilot flew back to Bloodvein where he dropped off the local guide. A strong wind was blowing with snow flurries when the helicopter took off for the return flight to Pine Falls Health Centre. During the flight, the helicopter crashed onto the frozen ice of Lake Winnipeg near Manigotagan, resulting in the deaths of the six occupants.
Sources:
Winnipeg Free Press, December 1, 1958
http://manitobia.ca/resources/books/local_histories/049.pdf
http://rcafassociation.ca/honours-awards/honours-awards-post-war-files/post-war-casualties-air-miscellaneous-units/
http://web.archive.org/web/20121123090555/http://www.scramble.nl:80/milbase.htm
Passauer Neue Presse 2.12.1958, p2
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Jun-2012 11:01 | TB | Added |
| 18-Jan-2013 14:19 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 24-Feb-2013 11:24 | TB | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Apr-2013 18:04 | TB | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-Dec-2016 07:18 | yukonjack | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Nov-2017 19:23 | TB | Updated [Location] |
| 25-Sep-2021 06:22 | Cosmo | Updated [Location] |
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