ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 73550
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Date: | Wednesday 22 November 1978 |
Time: | |
Type: | Bell 212 |
Owner/operator: | Bow Helicopters |
Registration: | C-GBHL |
MSN: | 30716 |
Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Castlegar, BC -
Canada
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Precautionary landing made due to MGB oil pressure gauge reading zero. After radio discussion with base it was decided the gauge was faulty and so flight resumed.
Two miles from destination the aircraft crashed. The MGB transmission quill had overheated and failed. Oil had been lost due to a hole in an oil pipe caused buy corrosion and prior chaffing from an earlier HF radio cable installation.
Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes/Terry Denham
WAAS / ICAO Summary 2/81
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
22-Mar-2010 08:03 |
slowkid |
Added |
03-Jun-2014 17:01 |
TB |
Updated [Date, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
03-Jun-2014 18:20 |
TB |
Updated [Plane category] |
23-Aug-2014 13:16 |
Aerossurance |
Updated [Phase, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
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