Incident Overview
Date: Tuesday 1 October 1957
Aircraft Type: Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina
Owner/operator: Eastern Provincial Airways
Registration Number: CF-HFL
Location: 80 km from Goose Bay, NL –
ÿ Canada
Phase of Flight: En route
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Component Affected: Aircraft enginesAircraft engines
Category: Accident
A Catalina CF-HFL experienced an abrupt loss of power during its return flight to Goose Bay, resulting in engine failure and subsequent crash. The aircraft descended rapidly, striking treetops, bouncing off marshland, and ultimately impacting a pine copse, causing a violent swerve. The crew was rescued, and wreckage was recovered and archived.A Catalina CF-HFL experienced an abrupt loss of power during its return flight to Goose Bay, resulting in engine failure and subsequent crash. The aircraft descended rapidly, striking treetops, bouncing off marshland, and ultimately impacting a pine copse, causing a violent swerve. The crew was rescued, and wreckage was recovered and archived.
Description
Catalina CF-HFL was returning to Goose Bay after supplying diesel fuel to an isolated communications site at Sona Lake, NL, Canada. When the airplane was about 50 miles out both engines began losing power until both engines quit. The plane descended and crashed through treetops, bounced off a marsh then struggled back six feet into the air until her starboard wing struck a small copse of pines. This caused the aircraft to slew around in a violent way. The crew were rescued. The wreckage of the Catalina was salvaged in 1986 and went to the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum.
Source of Information
http://atlanticcanadaaviationmuseum.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/the-story-of-our-pby-5a-canso/http://atlanticcanadaaviationmuseum.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/the-story-of-our-pby-5a-canso/Primary Cause
Engine failure and loss of control during flight.Engine failure and loss of control during flight.Share on:
