| Date: | Friday 25 March 1960 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Wheeler Airlines |
| Registration: | CF-IHQ |
| MSN: | 448 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | DEW Site 28, NU -
 Canada
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | |
Curtiss CF-IHQ took off from a dewline airstrip at 00:27 for a flight to another airstrip. The aircraft was on the downwind leg when it struck the ground at 780 feet asl.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot failed to maintain sufficient altitude and the aircraft struck the ground while on the downwind leg of a circuit to land."
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