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

This airframe was written off — TSB records the aircraft destroyed on January 21, 2006. No route data will appear.

Safety history

January 21, 2006Accident
The Cessna 208B aircraft (registration C-GRXZ, serial number 208B0469) was en route at 9000 feet above sea level, from Tofino, British Columbia, to Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia, when the engine failed. The pilot began a glide in the direction of the Port Alberni Regional Airport before attempting an emergency landing on a logging road.
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan · 3 fatalities
Findings as to Causes and Contributing Factors: 1. The engine lost power when a compressor turbine blade failed as a result of the overstress extension of a fatigue-generated crack. The fracture initiated at a metallurgical anomaly in the parent blade material and progressed, eventually resulting in blade failure due to overstress rupture. 2. Full accident record

Worst recorded outcome: destroyed (January 21, 2006).

January 21, 2006Accidentdestroyed
Cessna 208 B · Port Alberni · 3 fatalities · A06P0010
A06P0010: The pilot of a Sonic Blue Cessna 208B aircraft, serial number 208B0469, operating as flight RXX604, reported that an engine failure at 9000' above sea level while en-route from Tofino to Vancouver International airport. The flight was operating on an instrument flight plan but was in visual meteorological…
April 11, 2005Incident
Cessna 208 B · Vancouver · A05P0066
A05P0066: The Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400 aircraft, JA8089, operating as JAL12, took off from Vancouver runway 26L with a clearance to 16,000 feet, to turn left to heading 160 degrees at 4,000 feet. The aircraft turned left at 2,100 feet. Consequently the separation between a Regency Express Cessna 208B aircraft…

Registrations are reused. 1 TSB record predates the airframe built in 1995 and belongs to earlier aircraft that carried C-GRXZ.

November 20, 1992Accidentsubstantial damage
Cessna 152 · Bromont · A92Q0247
L'eleve-pilote effectuait un vol d'entrainement solo. Lors de l'atterrissage sur la piste 23, l'avion accusait une derive a gauche. L'appareil s'est pose a gauche de la ligne de centre et est sorti de piste sur le gazon. L'aeronef a continue sa course en biais jusqu'a ce qu'il s'immobilise dans un fosse bordant la…