Date: 27 APR 2006
Time: 12:32
Type: Convair CV-580
Operator: Saskatchewan Government Northern Air Operations
Registration: C-GSKJ
Msn / C/n: 202
Year built: 1954
Crew: 1 fatalities / 3 on board
Passengers: 0 fatalities / 0 on board
Total: 2 fatalities / 3 on board
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: 1,5 km NW of La Ronge Airport, SK (YVC/CYVC) (Canada)
Phase: Climb
Nature: Training
Departure airport: La Ronge Airport, SK (YVC/CYVC) (Canada) Destination airport: La Ronge Airport, SK (YVC/CYVC) (Canada) Convair CV-580 C-GSKJ was converted to an air tanker and bought by the Saskatchewan Government just three months earlier. The airplane departed its La Ronge base for a training mission at 12:01. Several touch and goes were performed on runway 36. At 12:32 the airplane's wheels touched the runway and the Convair became airborne again. The nr.1 propeller was seen windmilling. It climbed slowly, turning left onto the crosswind leg. Altitude could not be maintained and the aircraft descended until it struck terrain in a swampy area.
sources: 1 dead, 2 injured when Sask. forest firefighting plane crashes in training (CP 14-5-2006)
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AIRCRAFT PROFILE CONVAIR CV-580
* Last fatal CV-580 hull-loss accident: 27 APR 2006 LAC - SkyCongo ZS-SKH, near Amisi Airport, D.R.Congo - 8 fatalities
* Total number of CV-580 hull-losses: 31 (29 accidents and 2 unknown occurrences), of which 15 losses were fatal
* 14th worst accident
* Survival rate for all fatal CV-580 accidents: on average 27,7% of all occupants survived fatal accidents
* history of this airplane:
1954 N8431H - built as Convair CV-340-79 FEB 1955 N8431H - converted to Convair CV-440 OCT 1955 N776 - flying for a.o. Engelhardt Industries DEC 1959 N270E- flying for Engelhardt Industries FEB 1964 N270E - converted to Convair CV-580 JUL 1967 N278E - flying for a.o. Engelhardt Industries NOV 1967 N331G - flying for a.o. Forbes Magazine MAY 1970 N60FM - flying for a.o. Forbes Magazine MAY 1974 N8500 - flying for a.o. McDonnell Douglas and U.S. Dept of Energy FEB 1984 N30EG - flying for U.S. Dept of Energy MAR 1998 N30EG - withdrawn from use; to Mid Atlantic Air Museum (Reading, PA) AUG 2005 exported to Canada and converted to airtanker FEB 2006 C-GSKJ - Government of Saskatchewan
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OPERATOR PROFILE SASKATCHEWAN GOVERNMENT NORTHERN AIR OPERATIONS Operates a.o. tanker aircraft for the Government of Saskatchewan, Canada
* 1st airliner hull-loss accident
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AIRPORT PROFILE LA RONGE
* ICAO/IATA designators: CYVC/ YVC
* Latitude: 55° 09' 05.00" N / 105° 15' 43.00" W
* Elevation: 1242 ft/ 380 m
* Runway: 10/28 (716 x 15 meters, gravel)
Runway: 18/36 (1524 x 46 meters, asphalt, no ILS)
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COUNTRY PROFILE CANADA
* Last fatal airliner hull-loss accident: 21 JAN 2006 Cessna 208B Grand Caravan of Sonicblue Airways near Port Alberni, BC- 3 fatalities
* The country is rated Cat.1 (meeting ICAO standards) in FAA's International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA)