Status: | Information verified through authorities or other official sources. |
Date: | Monday 6 November 1995 |
Time: | 14:00 |
Type: | Beechcraft A100 King Air |
Operator: | Northern Thunderbird Air |
Registration: | C-FJFH |
MSN: | B-171 |
First flight: | 1973 |
Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Aircraft fate: | Repaired |
Location: | Mosque Airstrip, BC ( Canada)
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Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
Nature: | Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger |
Departure airport: | ? |
Destination airport: | ? |
Narrative:During touchdown on a snow-covered landing strip the nose gear dug into the wet snow. The nosewheel broke off, the nose gear collapsed and the propellers struck the runway. The aircraft slid about 400 ft. The pilot had been told that there was about 1 inch of snowfall at a site about 12 nm from the runway. The runway was covered with about 12 inch of heavy, wet snow. The operator has implemented procedures for providing more up-to-date communication between aircraft and the ground at such remote landing sites.
Classification:
Landing gear collapse
Runway mishap
Sources:
» ICAO Summary 1/96
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.