ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 324803
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Date: | Wednesday 11 January 1995 |
Time: | 01:49 |
Type: | Learjet 35 |
Owner/operator: | Canada Jet Charters |
Registration: | C-GPUN |
MSN: | 35-058 |
Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
Total airframe hrs: | 11676 hours |
Engine model: | Garrett TFE731-2-2B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 15 km NW off Masset Airport, BC (ZMT) -
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Ambulance |
Departure airport: | Vancouver International Airport, BC (YVR/CYVR) |
Destination airport: | Masset Airport, BC (ZMT/CZMT) |
Investigating agency: | TSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
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."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | TSB |
Report number: | TSB Report A95P0004 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 11 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; January 1980
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