Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 27 AUG 1992 |
| Time: | 10:20 |
| Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-4T Caribou |
| Operator: | NewCal Aviation |
| Registration: | N400NC |
| C/n / msn: | 240 |
| First flight: | 1965 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Gimli, MB (Canada) |
| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Gimli Airport, MB (YGM/GYGM), Canada |
| Gimli Airport, MB (YGM/GYGM), Canada |
The aircraft took off for a test flight for a turbine-engine conversion programme. It climbed steeply, rolled to the right and crashed in a nose-down, rightwing-low attitude.
Sources:
» Flight International 9-15.9.1992 (p.35)
» ICAO Adrep Summary 6/94 (#79)
» Scramble 160
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Distance from Gimli Airport, MB to Gimli Airport, MB as the crow flies is NAN km (NAN miles).
Distance from Gimli Airport, MB to Gimli Airport, MB as the crow flies is NAN km (NAN 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.
