ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 349212
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| Date: | Wednesday 15 July 1998 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver |
| Owner/operator: | Air Rainbow Midcoast |
| Registration: | C-GCZA |
| MSN: | 1667 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1966 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | |
| Location: | Saturna Island, British Columbia -
 Canada
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | |
| Investigating agency: | TSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The float-equipped de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver (C-GCZA), serial number 1667, was en route under visual flight rules from Campbell River, British Columbia, to Renton, Washington, with the pilot and four passengers on board. It was following another Air Rainbow DHC-2 Beaver C-GCYX) that was also proceeding to Renton on an identical flight planned route. While en route, the pilot of C-GCZA closed in on C-GCYX and positioned his aircraft about 45 degrees off the leading aircraft's wing and about 500 feet astern of the lead aircraft. When the two aircraft approached Samuel Island, the weather deteriorated to such an extent that the pilots decided to land on the water and wait for conditions to improve. The leading aircraft landed first and, almost immediately, its pilot reported that he could see that the weather was clear ahead and that they should overshoot and continue.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
TSB
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 13 May 2012 | C-GCZA | private | 3 | near Brenda Mines, BC | |
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