| Date: | Sunday 24 September 1972 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina |
| Owner/operator: | Austin Airways |
| Registration: | CF-AAD |
| MSN: | 1658 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 16 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Great Whale River, QC -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | Initial climb |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | |
One propeller oversped and could not be feathered. During landing the pilot-in-command decided to overshoot because of an unsafe gear indication. However, he was unable to maintain altitude with gear down and a windmilling propeller.
Sources:
US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher
ICAO Summary No. 53
Images:
photo (c) Patrick Cloutier; near Kuujjuarapik, QC; 1982
photo (c) Patrick Cloutier; near Kuujjuarapik, QC; 1982
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