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Captain Postal posted:So this beautiful thing has gone down with 6 people on board. ...and here's the really strange part, for those that didn't click through: quote:In 1954, at age 10, Mr Porter survived a crash that claimed the lives of his father and brother in the same type of aircraft.
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Update from Harbour Air, The World’s Largest Seaplane Airline™️: https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/02/21/man-reportedly-takes-off-in-stolen-float-plane-crashes-into-another-in-vancouver/ The wing looks 😞. They’ve cordoned off the terminal, bringing in the fingerprint unit and are rerouting people their Fraser River Terminal.
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Initial findings from that Snowbird crash are showing that a bird strike was a likely cause:CBC posted:Canadian air force crash investigators are looking at a bird strike as the probable cause of the crash of a Snowbird demonstration jet in Kamloops, British Columbia last month. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/snowbird-crash-report-1.5593259 loving birds. Ugh.
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Floatplane flipped earlier today after hitting a sandbar near Tofino. This is the very same company that had a crash over a decade ago where none survived. https://www.google.ca/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/local/vancouver-island/2021/7/26/1_5523765.html
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Advent Horizon posted:Float flying is inherently dangerous. Hitting a sandbar, possibly one that moves, is a risk that is taken on many flights. The ‘runways’ are not lit, marked, and are constantly moving. The landing ‘gear’ has no brakes, the surface elevation can change (by 7+ meters in some places going by tides). There are not usually wind socks and spray means you might not get a clear view out the window. Agreed. And I have flown with them. I brought up the earlier crash as it was previously discussed in this thread, which I ought to have mentioned.
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Another notch on the belt for float planes in Tofino crashing on landing/takeoff:quote:
https://www.cheknews.ca/no-injuries-reported-after-float-plane-capsizes-in-tofino-harbour-901230/ Unclear if this is the same outfit that had one of their planes flip after hitting a sandbar earlier this year - see my previous post from earlier this year.
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Made my first complaint to Transport Canada today. [quote=] I’m emailing with regard to aircraft C-GXDQ. This aircraft is registered to Twin Aviation Inc. I am requesting that TC investigate the below matter to ensure that this pilot does not continue to endanger the safety of those in the region. I reside in Esquimalt BC. I was up early on Friday morning (June 17) to catch the 7am ferry. I was grabbing my morning coffee when I heard a plane nearby. It sounded like a really low pass. We live on the flight path for Harbour Air so I thought it might be one of their twin otters. A few minutes later I heard the plane again. At this point I looked out my window – it sounded really close, much closer and louder than the twin otters we so regularly hear. Looking at the plane, I could see that it wasn’t a Harbour Air plane. So I pulled up flight aware to see who would be flying at such an early hour: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/CGXDQ Flight aware showed that there was only one plane in the region at that hour: C-GXDQ. As I was going about my morning, I heard this plane do at least 4 passes over my house. All at extremely low elevation. This was confirmed when I looked at the flight log on flight aware. The track from Friday morning shows that they did multiple passes over Victoria/Esquimalt during their flight. At times they were as low as 61 meters. The flight data available on flightaware shows the aircraft at 61m of elevation at 48°27’00.0”N 123°25’12.0”W at 5:31 am. This is four blocks from our house. I also understand that this is not the first instance where this has occurred for this plane: in 2010 they were found to have engaged in similar behavior in Vancouver. Low passes over a residential area early in the morning. I can see no basis for which this pilot needed to engage in such dangerous behavior with clear disregard for the folks living in the area. I am requesting that TC investigate this matter directly to confirm the above and take steps to ensure that this pilot does not continue with this behavior. Please confirm receipt of this email and I would appreciate being kept appraised of what corrective measures are taken against this pilot. [/quote] To be clear, I have zero issues with living on the flight path for Harbour Air. But 61m. 😮💨😮💨
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blindjoe posted:I bet they are spraying for Lymantria Moths? There was a spray over View Royal on June 17 Wow. This fits. Thanks for this. Love this thread. ❤️
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ImplicitAssembler posted:So, I assume you wrote TC and retracted your complaint? Correct.
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From a local YKA Facebook Group:  FB caption says this was a water bomber conversion that crashed in 1960. Other comments say it was a crop duster. Now located at the museum of flight in Seattle.
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