| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | September 22, 2011 |
| Time: | 1315 |
| Location: | Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada |
| Operator: | Arctic Sunwest Charters |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Thor Lake - Great Slave Lake |
| AC Type: | De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter |
| Registration: | C-GARW |
| cn / ln: | 367 |
| Aboard: | 9 (passengers:7 crew:2) |
| Fatalities: | 2 (passengers:0 crew:2) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | While coming in for a landing at Great Slave Lake the float plane hit powerlines, two cars and part of a building. The pilot attempted to abort the landing after an aircraft float dug into the water. A cross-wind flipped the plane on end and it clipped power lines in front of a building, spinning it 90 degrees. The plane then crashed, floats first, into a façade. The fuselage then rotated on the ground and, the floats demolished two vehicles and came to rest in a parking lot facing back the way it had come. |
Sources
Copyright © Richard Kebabjian / www.planecrashinfo.com