Accident
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Datum: | 24 JUL 1948 |
| Zeit: | ca 17:30 |
| Flugzeugtyp: | Douglas C-47-DL |
| Fluggesellschaft: | Rimouski Airlines |
| Kennzeichen: | CF-FKY |
| Werknummer: | 6246 |
| Baujahr: | 1943 |
| Triebwerk: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Besatzung: | Todesopfer: 3 / Insassen: 3 |
| Fluggäste: | Todesopfer: 23 / Insassen: 23 |
| Gesamt: | Todesopfer: 26 / Insassen: 26 |
| Sachschaden: | Zerstört |
| Konsequenzen: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Unfallort: | Cap des Rosiers, QC (Kanada)
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| Flugphase: | Während des Fluges (ENR) |
| Betriebsart: | Inländischer außerplanmäßiger Passagierflug |
| Flug von: | Anticosti Island, QC, Kanada |
| Gaspe-Metropolitan Area Airport, QC (YGP/CYGP), Kanada |
The C-47 Dakota was chartered to fly employees of the Consolidated Paper Co. from Anticosti to Gaspe (YGP). It crashed into the fog-shrouded rocks of Cap des Rosiers, 12 miles East of Gaspe.
Informationsquelle:
» 29 Killed in worst disaster in Canadian aviation history (Winnipeg Free Press, 1948-07-26)
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Monument remembering the victims of the accident
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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