C-GIPR (Cessna Aircraft Company 208) — accident record & aircraft history

This airframe was written off — TSB records the aircraft destroyed on March 8, 2022. No route data will appear.

Safety history

March 8, 2022Accident
On 08 March 2022, the Bamaji Air Inc. (Bamaji) wheel-equipped Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft (registration C-GIPR, serial number 20800343) was conducting a series of visual flight rules (VFR) flights from Sioux Lookout Airport (CYXL), Ontario.
Cessna 208A Caravan
The accident occurred while the aircraft was crossing a large, frozen, snow-covered lake at low altitude. Other than some small islands and the distant treed shorelines, there were few features to provide visual references. Full accident record

Worst recorded outcome: destroyed (March 8, 2022).

March 8, 2022Accidentdestroyed
Cessna 208 · Sioux Lookout · A22C0016
C-GIPR, a wheel-equipped Cessna C208 aircraft operated by Bamaji Air Inc., was conducting a visual flight rules (VFR) flight from Sioux Lookout (CYXL) ON, to an ice strip on Springpole Lake, ON with the pilot and 1 passenger onboard. Approximately 17 nm NNW of CYXL the aircraft impacted the frozen surface of Lac Seul…

Registrations are reused. 2 TSB records predate the airframe built in 2001 and belong to earlier aircraft that carried C-GIPR.

August 9, 1981Accidentsubstantial damage
Hiller FH-1100 · Haultain River · A81C0096
A81c0096: the pilot lifted off from a pad on a riverbank and as he applied forward cyclic the a/c began to sink. He re-entered the hover, checked the engine gauges and again applied forward cyclic. The helicopter descended as it moved forward, the skids contacted the river, and the helicopter rolled into the water. A…
August 15, 1979Accidentminor damage
Hiller FH-1100 · Uranium City · 1 fatalities · A79C0106
A79c0106: after the helicopter had landed the passengers disembarked following a briefing by the pilot on the proper disembarking technique. One experienced helicopter passenger exited the front left seat and walked back into the tail rotor.