The Missinippi plane before the accident, at Cambridge Bay Airport |
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| Accident summary | |
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| Date | 4 July 2011 |
| Type | Under investigation |
| Site | Pukatawagan Airport, Manitoba,Canada |
| Passengers | 8 |
| Crew | 1 |
| Injuries | 8[1] |
| Fatalities | 1[1] |
| Survivors | 8 |
| Aircraft type | Cessna 208 |
| Operator | Missinippi Airways |
| Tail number | C-FMCB |
| Flight origin | Pukatawagan Airport, Manitoba |
| Destination | The Pas/Grace Lake Airport, Manitoba |
On 4 July 2011, a Missinippi Airways Cessna 208 Caravan crashed when its pilot attempted to abort its take off from Pukatawagan Airport. The aircraft overran the runway and crashed into a ravine where it caught fire and was destroyed. One passenger was killed, the pilot and seven other passengers were injured and transported to hospital. [1][2] None of those transported to hospital received life-threatening injuries.[1]
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The aircraft was a single-engined Cessna 208B Grand Caravan owned by Beaver Air Services and operated by Missinippi Airways; with a registration of C-FMCB and a manufacturer's serial number of 208B-1114. It had been manufactured and first flown in 2005.[3]
An investigation is being carried out by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.[4] The preliminary findings show that the aircraft ran off the runway and caught fire, but the cause of this is not yet known.[5]
Safety concerns identified during the investigation led Transport Canada to revoke Missinippi Airways' air operator's certificate,[6] for safety concerns.[7] Without this, it is unable to fly commercial air services in Canada.[8] The air operator's certificate was subsequently reinstated effective September 3, 2011.[9]
On October 21, 2011 at 11:59 pm Transport Canada suspended the Air Operator Certificate again due to deficiencies with the company's Operational Control System after an inspection during the week. [10]