- Date
- July 16, 2016, 05:20 local (05:20 UTC)
- Place
- Telegraph Creek, Canada
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- C-GWDWDehavilland DHC-2 MK. I
- Defining event
- Enroute: Unknown or undetermined
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 93641
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Factual narrative
On July 15, 2016, about 0520 Coordinated Universal Time, a Canadian registered De Havilland DHC-2 Mk I airplane on floats, C-GWDW, owned and operated by Tsayta Aviation Ltd, impacted terrain approximately 15 nm east south east of Telegraph Creek, British Columbia, Canada. The airplane was flying a visual flight rules flight from Telegraph Creek Water Aerodrome, British Columbia, Canada, to Mowdade Lake, British Columbia. The airplane was destroyed, and the sole pilot was fatally injured. The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Canadian Transportation Safety Board. This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the Canadian government. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from: Transportation Safety Board of Canada 200 Promenade du Portage, Place du Centre, 4th Floor Gatineau, Quebec K1A 1K8 Tel: 1 (800) 387-3557 Fax: 1 (819) 997-2239 Email: airops@tsb.gc.ca Web: http://www.tsb.gc.ca Occurrence Number: A16P0116
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- C-GWDW
- Reported as
- Dehavilland DHC-2 MK. I (MARKI)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 306
- Engine
- Pratt and Whitney R 985-AN-1, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Registered owner
- Tsayta Aviation Ltd
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Departed
- CAH9 · Telegraph Creek
- Destination
- Dease Lake
- Flight plan
- VFR
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 17, 2016, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 359 KB in all.