Date:	Monday 16 March 2009
Time:	14:28
Type:	Canadair CL-215
Owner/operator:	Buffalo Airways
Registration:	C-FTXB
MSN:	1007
Year of manufacture:	1971
Total airframe hrs:	44298 hours
Engine model:	P&W R-2800-83AM
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	None
Category:	Incident
Location:	Santa Maria, Azores -   Portugal
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:	Santa Maria-Vila do Porto Airport, Azores (SMA/LPAZ)
Destination airport:	Cascais Airport (LPCS)
Investigating agency:	GPIAA
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The Canadair CL-215, registration C-FTXB, took off from Santa Maria (LPAZ) airport, at 12:53 UTC, heading east to Cascais (LPCS). The aircraft was en gaged on a delivery flight to Turkey and was accompanied by another
similar aeroplane.
About 80NM far from Sta. Maria the pilot reported an overspeed on engine #1 propeller and that he couldn’t control the situation and had to shut down affected engine, requesting to go back to Sta. Maria, where he landed, single engine, at 14:28, uneventfully.
Company technicians were dispatched to Sta. Maria, left engine propeller governor was changed, a test flight carried out and the aircraft resumed its flight to destination on the 30th of March.

GPIAAF and footage from ICE Pilots:NWT Season 1, Episode 9

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Apr-2025 09:51	ASN	Added
14-Jun-2025 15:45	VHarzewski	Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category, ]
14-Jun-2025 15:47	ASN	Updated [Cn, Damage, Narrative, ]