4/30/2023 0 Comments Nootka air plane crash![]() ![]() It continued east across the peninsula, arriving at the dock on Hesquiat Lake at about 1004. While flying over Nootka Sound, British Columbia, at just under 300 feet above sea level (asl), en route from Louie Lagoon to Hesquiat Lake, the pilot radioed Air Nootka's base to report that the weather was good enough for 2 company aircraft to depart the company's base for Hesquiat Lake to pick up 9 additional hikers at the Hesquiat Lake dock.Ībout 6 minutes later, C-GPVB crossed over the west shore of Hesquiat Peninsula while flying at about 400 feet asl. Spot and Latitude waypoints in Figure 1 are derived from the pilot's own SPOT© Satellite Messenger Footnote 2 tracker and the aircraft's Latitude Footnote 3 tracking system. After dropping off the passengers at Louie Lagoon, C-GPVB departed for Hesquiat Lake, British Columbia, 26 nm southeast of Louie Lagoon, to pick up 5 hikers waiting at a dock at the south end of the lake ( Figure 1). This was the first Air Nootka flight of the day. The pilot departed the base in C-GPVB at 0850 with passengers bound for Louie Lagoon, British Columbia, about 32 nm west of CAU6. Air Nootka's main base is located at the Gold River Water Aerodrome (CAU6), about 6 nautical miles (nm) south-southwest of Gold River, British Columbia. The pilot arrived at Air Nootka Ltd.'s (Air Nootka) main base at about 0730, Footnote 1 half an hour before any other employee. Factual information History of the flight A brief 406 megahertz emergency locator transmitter signal was transmitted, and a search and rescue helicopter recovered the survivors at about 1600. All 6 persons on board survived the impact, but the pilot and 1 passenger died shortly after. Shortly after the aircraft came to rest, a post-crash fire developed. ![]() Approximately 3 nautical miles west of the lake, while over Hesquiat Peninsula, the aircraft struck a tree top at about 800 feet above sea level and crashed. Visibility at Hesquiat Lake was about 2 ½ nautical miles in rain, and the cloud ceiling was about 400 feet above lake and sea level. At 1015 Pacific Daylight Time, the de Havilland DHC-2 (Beaver) floatplane (registration C-GPVB, serial number 871), operated by Air Nootka Ltd., departed Hesquiat Lake, British Columbia, with the pilot and 5 passengers for Air Nootka Ltd.'s water aerodrome base near Gold River, British Columbia. ![]()
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