Date:	Tuesday 21 May 2013
Time:
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver
Owner/operator:	Harold Long/Remote Creek Enterprises
Registration:	C-GBHJ
MSN:	880
Year of manufacture:	1955
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-14
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	W of Stuart Island, Strait of Georgia, BC -   Canada
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
The aircraft, a de Havilland DHC-2 MK1 float plane, C-GBHJ, was located inverted in the Strait of Georgia west of Stuart Island, British Columbia.
The aircraft sustained unreported damage and the sole pilot onboard had received fatal injuries.
Hunters spotted the submerged aircraft, drifting in the ebb tide in Vancouver Bay (Campbell River 25nm North), aircraft was equipped with ELT but no alert was heard. TSB photo below shows gear extended.

http://www.news889.com/2013/05/21/float-plane-crash-off-b-c-coast-claims-the-life-of-one-emergency-official/
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.theprovince.com/news/Float+plane+crash+Bute+Inlet+claims+life/8416461/story.html]
https://www.campbellrivermirror.com/news/former-mla-harold-long-dies-in-plane-crash-north-of-campbell-river/
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://wwwapps2.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/ccarcs/aspscripts/en/current.asp]
http://www.myaviation.net/search/search.php?view=®nr=C-GBHJ

TSB Photo; http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab20/bizjets101/C-GBHJ_zps34b8f657.jpg

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

6 September 1982

N4022B

Richard . Busk

0

Port Moller, AK

sub

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-May-2013 03:38	Geno	Added
22-May-2013 07:33	Barbarossa	Updated [Aircraft type, Source]
22-May-2013 13:34	harro	Updated [Aircraft type, Damage, Narrative]
23-May-2013 04:09	Geno	Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative]
23-May-2013 09:46	TB	Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Damage]
26-Jun-2013 02:35	bizjets101	Updated [Source, Narrative]
26-Jun-2013 02:59	bizjets101	Updated [Time, Operator, Phase, Narrative]