Accident description
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 24 FEB 1976 |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 |
| Operator: | Gateway Aviation |
| Registration: | C-FBQJ |
| C/n / msn: | 143 |
| First flight: | 1968 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Yellowknife Airport, NT (YZF) (Canada) |
| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Port Radium, NWT (CYIX), Canada |
| Yellowknife Airport, NT (YZF/CYZF), Canada |
Crashed in white-out conditions.
Sources:
» E-mail Terry Smith, Air-Britain (11-6-2007)
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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.
