Status:	Final
Date:	11 JAN 1995
Time:	01:49 PST
Type:	Learjet 35
Operator:	Canada Jet Charters
Registration:	C-GPUN
C/n / msn:	35-058
First flight:	1976
Total airframe hrs:	11676
Engines:	2 Garrett TFE731-2-2B
Crew:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Total:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	15 km (9.4 mls) NW of Masset Airport, BC (ZMT) (Canada)
Phase:	Approach (APR)
Nature:	Ambulance
Departure airport:	Vancouver International Airport, BC (YVR/CYVR), Canada
Destination airport:	Masset Airport, BC (ZMT), Canada

Narrative:
The crew most likely conducted the runway 12 instrument approach to Masset with reference to an unintentionally mis-set altimeter of 30.17 in. Hg, and unknowingly flew the aircraft into the water. The aircraft was on a medevac flight from Vancouver.

CAUSES: "The crew most likely conducted the instrument approach with reference to an unintentionally mis-set altimeter of 30.17 in. Hg, and unknowingly flew
the aircraft into the water. The circumstances leading to the incorrect altimeter setting could not be determined, nor was it determined why the crew
did not detect the mis-set altimeter."

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