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| Date: | Sunday 2 January 1966 |
| Time: | 09:50 |
| Type: | Grumman G-21A Goose |
| Owner/operator: | BC Air Lines |
| Registration: | CF-GEB |
| MSN: | B-45 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Vancouver (YVT), BC -
Canada
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Vancouver (YVT/CYVR), BC |
| Destination airport: | Tahsis, BC |
| Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Flight 235 overshot the runway and crashed on tidelands during snowstorm. Pilot Frank McCarville and two passengers died. Aircraft returned to Vancouver shortly after take-off due to weather.
Wreckage salvaged, sold to USA and rebuilt as N1042. Crashed in Alaska May 1978, three minor injuries, aircraft reported as destroyed, cancelled from USCAR 1983 as destroyed.
Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes/Terry Denham
https://www.gent.name/Aircraft/bcairlinesltd.html El Siglo de Torreón 3 January 1966, p12
"The Grumman Amphibians" by Fred J. Knight
http://mid.gov.kz/images/stories/contents/096_vol_1_en.pdf Final Report summary ICAO No.1:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151208234007/http://aviation.mid.gov.kz/sites/default/files/pages/096_daydzhest_aviacionnyh_proisshestviy._no_18._tom_1_en_1.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 12 May 1978 |
N1042 |
Gifford Aviation |
0 |
near Port Moller, AK |
 |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
| 24-Jan-2011 15:25 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 19-Jan-2013 12:41 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Registration, Cn, Total fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 29-Jan-2013 10:37 |
TB |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 11-Aug-2015 16:42 |
TB |
Updated [Source, ] |
| 25-Oct-2018 17:53 |
Anon. |
Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Total occupants, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 20-Nov-2021 09:22 |
xrecovery9 |
Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |