| Date: | Wednesday 9 December 2009 |
| Time: | 22:50 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft A100 King Air |
| Owner/operator: | Exact Air |
| Registration: | C-GPBA |
| MSN: | B-215 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1974 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-28 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 5,5 km NW of Saint-Honoré Airport, QC (YRC) -
 Canada
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Val-dOr Airport, QC (YVO/CYVO) |
| Saint-Honoré Airport, QC (YRC) | |
| Investigating agency: | TSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Beechcraft A100 King Air, registration C-GPBA, operated by Exact Air as flight ET822 was on an instrument flight rules flight between Val-dOr Airport, QC (YVO) and Saint-Honoré Airport, QC (YRC), with 2 pilots and 2 passengers on board.
Last contact was at 22:40 when the aircraft was cleared for an RNAV (GNSS) runway 12 approach and switched to the aerodrome traffic frequency.
The aircraft was located at 02:24 in a wooded area approximately 3 nautical miles from the threshold of runway 12, on the approach centreline. The 2 pilots were fatally injured, and the 2 passengers were seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed on impact; there was no post crash fire.
FINDINGS AS TO CAUSES AND CONTRIBUTING FACTORS: "For undetermined reasons, the crew continued its descent prematurely below the published approach minima, leading to a controlled flight into terrain (CFIT)."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
TSB
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 14 January 2009 | C-GPBA | Exact Air | Nemiscau (CYHH) | |
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Location
Images:
photo (c) Transportation Safety Board of Canada; near Saint-Honoré Airport, QC (YRC); 09 December 2009; (CC:by-nc-nd)
photo (c) Transportation Safety Board of Canada; near Saint-Honoré Airport, QC (YRC); 09 December 2009; (CC:by-nc-nd)
photo (c) Transportation Safety Board of Canada; near Saint-Honoré Airport, QC (YRC); 09 December 2009; (CC:by-nc-nd)
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