| Date: | Thursday 28 July 2005 |
| Time: | 08:40 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft 200 Super King Air |
| Owner/operator: | Northern Thunderbird Air |
| Registration: | C-FCGL |
| MSN: | BB-190 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-41 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Shovelnose Creek, BC -
 Canada
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Vancouver International Airport, BC (YVR/CYVR) |
| Smithers Airport, BC (YYD/CYYD) | |
| Investigating agency: | TSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Beechcraft 200 Super King Air, registration C-FCGL, operating as Northern Thunderbird Air flight 202, departed Vancouver International Airport, BC (YVR), at 08:24 for a visual flight rules flight to Smithers Airport, BC (YYD), with a crew of two on board. The aircraft did not arrive at its destination, and a search was commenced later that same day. The aircraft was found on 30 July 2005. The crash site was in a narrow canyon at an elevation of about 3900 feet above sea level, in an area of steeply rising terrain. Both occupants were fatally injured. A post-crash fire destroyed most of the aircraft. The emergency locator transmitter was destroyed in the fire and no signal was detected.
FINDINGS AS TO CAUSES AND CONTRIBUTING FACTORS:
1. The aircraft was flown up a narrow canyon into rapidly rising terrain for reasons that could not be determined. The aircraft's proximity to terrain and the narrowness of the canyon precluded a turn, and the aircraft's climb rate was insufficient to clear the rising terrain.
2. The pilot decision-making training received by the crew members was ineffective because they were unprepared for the unique hazards and special operating techniques associated with flying low in mountainous terrain.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 19 January 2005 | C-FCGL | Northern Thunderbird Air | 0 | 80 nm NE Kelowna, British Columbia | |
non |
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Vancouver International Airport, BC (YVR/CYVR); September 1995
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