Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 28 APR 1947 |
| Time: | ca 23:15 |
| Type: | Lockheed 18-08A Lodestar |
| Operator: | Trans-Canada Air Lines - TCAL |
| Registration: | CF-TDF |
| C/n / msn: | 18-2248 |
| First flight: | 1942 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 15 / Occupants: 15 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 16 km (10 mls) N of Vancouver, BC (Canada) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Lethbridge Airport, AB (YQL/CYQL), Canada |
| Vancouver International Airport, BC (YVR/CYVR), Canada | |
| Flightnumber: | 3 |
The Lodestar went missing while on approach to Vancouver. The wreckage was found September 27th, 1994 in a remote area just west of Mount Elsay on a wooded slope.
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Distance from Lethbridge Airport, AB to Vancouver International Airport, BC as the crow flies is 747 km (467 miles).
Distance from Lethbridge Airport, AB to Vancouver International Airport, BC as the crow flies is 747 km (467 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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