Date:	Sunday 23 June 1957
Time:
Type:	Douglas R4D-3 (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Queen Charlotte Airlines
Registration:	CF-EPI
MSN:	7408
Year of manufacture:	1942
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 14 / Occupants: 18
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Port Hardy Airport, BC (YZT) -   Canada
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Port Hardy Airport, BC (YZT/CYZT)
Destination airport:	Vancouver International Airport, BC (YVR/CYVR)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Some 5 minutes after takeoff from Port Hardy, the crew reported they were returning because of elevator control problems. A long final approach to runway 15 was carried out. The DC-3 bounced on touchdown and was then seen to make an exceptionally sharp climb. At the top of the climb the aircraft stalled and crashed in a nose-down attitude, bursting into flames.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "Because of a partially locked elevator, control of the aircraft was lost during an attempt to land."

ICAO Accident Digest No.9, Circular 56-AN/51 (129)

photo (c) via Douglas Oliver Mullins; Port Hardy Airport, BC (YZT); June 1957

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