C-GROW — routes, history & safety record

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Safety history

August 29, 1979AccidentHull loss
The airplane was being used for a series of flights between Frobisher (YFB) and Brevoort Island, a distance of 119 NM. These flights were conducted under visual flight rules (VFR) with a Flight Notification filed at Frobisher. Two return flights were accomplished without incident and the aircraft was flown back to Brevoort for another round trip.
De Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter · 9 fatalities
The following findings were identified: - Three other aircraft made successful downwind landings on runway 36; one before and two after the accident flight. - For undetermined reasons, the crew of C-GROW, following their instrument landing approach, decided not to land on runway 36 with the strong tailwind and elected to circle for runway 18. Full accident record

Transportation Safety Board of Canada records3 on file

Worst recorded outcome: destroyed (August 29, 1979).

September 11, 2019Incidentminor damage
Air Tractor AT-402B · High Prairie · A19W0129
C-GROW, an Air Tractor 402B, operated by Bonnyville Air Services (1980) Ltd., was conducting an aerial work flight 3 miles east of High Prairie (CZHP), AB when it struck a power line. Multiple passes had been made on the field and on this particular pass the aircraft had moved closer to a gas plant which featured a…
August 29, 1979Accidentdestroyed
DE Havilland DHC-6-200 · Frobisher Bay · 9 fatalities · A79Q0093
A79q0093: les membres de l'equipage sont entres en communication avec la station fss de frobisher a 22h31. Lorsqu'ils ont appris que les conditions meteo etaient inferieures au minimum VFR, ils ont demande un "VFR special" qui leur a ete accorde a 22h35. Les mauvaises conditions meteorologiques ont incite le pilote…
June 25, 1978Accidentsubstantial damage
DE Havilland DHC-6-200 · Radstock Bay · A78C0078
The purpose of the flight was to resupply a fuel cache on a snow-covered beach. Another company pilot had used the beach 3 days previously, had inspected it on foot and described it as a good landing area. The pilot landed in the tracks left by the other aircraft, but at a speed of about 10 kt the nose and left wheels…

Source: TSB Aviation Safety Information System (ASIS) (open data).