Date: | Wednesday 26 September 1956 |
Time: | |
Type: | Avro 685 York C.1 |
Owner/operator: | Maritime Central Airways |
Registration: | CF-HMW |
MSN: | |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Merlin |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC -
Canada
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Frobisher Bay Airport, NU (YFB/CYFB) |
Destination airport: | Kuujjuaq-Fort Chimo Airport, QC (YVP/CYVP) |
Narrative:The Avro York was returning after working at a Distant Early Warning (DEW) radar line.
Sources:
Two Die In Crash Aircraft (Lethbridge Herald 27-9-1956)
Location
Images:
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC; March 2008
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC; March 2008
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC; March 2008
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
photo (c) Ghyslain Plamondon; 44 km N of Kuujjuaq, QC
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