Date:	Saturday 23 October 2010
Time:	16:20
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver
Owner/operator:	Cairns Seaplanes
Registration:	VH-PCF
MSN:	1348/1898
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	Green Island, off Cairns, QLD -   Australia
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Green Island
Destination airport:	Trinity Inlet
Investigating agency:	ATSB
Confidence Rating:	Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities

Narrative:
A salvage team will attempt to recover a sea plane that crashed in far north Queensland on 23 October 2010.
Police say the plane was forced to do an emergency landing only minutes after take off at Green Island, off Cairns.
Seven Chinese tourists were on board the plane but no-one was injured.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/10/25/3046991.htm http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2010/10/25/131945_local-news.html
http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/investigation_reports/2010/aair/ao-2010-082.aspx
http://www.dhc-2.com/id802.htm

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Oct-2010 07:13	gerard57	Added
26-Oct-2010 00:21	Anon.	Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total occupants, Source, ]
31-Oct-2010 05:52	Glideslope	Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Destination airport, Source, Damage, ]
18-Jul-2011 12:34	TB	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative, ]
18-Jul-2011 12:36	TB	Updated [Narrative, ]
13-Aug-2011 14:30	TB	Updated [Date, ]
13-Aug-2011 14:35	TB	Updated [Cn, Location, Source, Narrative, ]