ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 349280
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| Date: | Monday 9 February 2009 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Beechcraft 1900D |
| Owner/operator: | Sunwest Aviation |
| Registration: | C-GSWZ |
| MSN: | UE 337 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1998 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 20 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Serious incident |
| Location: | Fort McMurray, Alberta -
 Canada
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Fort McMurray Airport, AB |
| Investigating agency: | TSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
At 2111 mountain standard time, a Sunwest Aviation Limited Beech 1900D aircraft (registration C-GSWZ, serial number UE 337), Flight 411 (CNK411), with two crewmembers and eighteen passengers, was taking off from Runway 25 at the Fort McMurray Airport. The visibility at the time was reported as five-eighths of a statute mile in light snow. Just before reaching the take off decision speed/rotation speed, the crew noticed headlights on the runway in front of them and rotated immediately. The aircraft passed about 100 to 150 feet over a snowplow operating on the runway. The snowplow operator had been cleared by the flight service specialist to continue snow clearing operations on Runway 25 after a previous departure. The snowplow operator had not been instructed to vacate the runway prior to CNK411's departure, and CNK411 had not been advised of the presence of the snowplow on the runway. CNK411 was communicating with the flight service station on the mandatory frequency of 118.1 MHz, whereas the snowplow operator was communicating on the ground frequency of 121.9 MHz.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
TSB
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 26-Dec-2023 15:28 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Plane category] |
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