Incident Overview

Date: Wednesday 1 December 1993
Aircraft Type: Shorts 330-300UTT
Owner/operator: Gouvernement du Qu‚bec
Registration Number: C-FPQE
Location: near Umiujaq Airport, QC (YUD) – ÿ Canada
Phase of Flight: Approach
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 13
Component Affected: Aircraft wingsAircraft wings
Investigating Agency: TSBTSB
Category: Accident
A Hydro-Qu‚bec flight from Kuujjuarapik to Umiujaq experienced a catastrophic crash due to a stalled aircraft caused by ice on the wings and a steep turn. The pilot initiated a stall recovery, but was unable to maintain sufficient altitude to avoid the rising terrain.A Hydro-Qu‚bec flight from Kuujjuarapik to Umiujaq experienced a catastrophic crash due to a stalled aircraft caused by ice on the wings and a steep turn. The pilot initiated a stall recovery, but was unable to maintain sufficient altitude to avoid the rising terrain.

Description

The two pilots were transporting Hydro-Qu‚bec employees from Kuujjuarapik to Umiujaq. The flight departed at 14:44. Thirty miles from Umiujaq, the crew commenced the descent. Seven miles from the village, the aircraft was at an altitude of 700 feet and the crew could see the ground. The crew used a GPS waypoint to supplement visual navigation and continued their step-down procedure to about 200 feet agl. When turning onto the final approach to runway 21, the pilot-in-command initiated a turn with at least 35 degrees of bank angle, and the aircraft stalled. The pilot-in-command initiated a stall recovery and called for full power. The aircraft did not gain sufficient altitude to overfly the rising terrain, and it crashed. CAUSES: “The stalling speed of the aircraft increased due to ice on the leading edge of the wings and because the pilot made a steep turn; the aircraft stalled at an altitude from which the pilot was unable to recover. A contributing factor was the crew’s decision to continue the visual approach into Umiujaq despite the weather conditions reported.”

Primary Cause

Stall caused by ice on the leading edge of the wings and a steep turn.Stall caused by ice on the leading edge of the wings and a steep turn.

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