C-GYPZ (Cessna Aircraft Company R172K) — accident record & aircraft history

This airframe was written off — TSB records the aircraft destroyed on May 1, 1995. No route data will appear.

Safety history

May 1, 1995Accident
Bearskin flight 362, a Fairchild Swearingen Metro 23, departed Red Lake, Ontario, at 1300 central daylight saving time (CDT), with two pilots and one passenger on board, en route to Sioux Lookout on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan.
Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain · 5 fatalities
Neither flight crew saw the other aircraft in time to avoid the collision. Contributing to the occurrence were the inherent limitations of the see-and-avoid concept which preclude the effective separation of aircraft with high closure rates, the fact that neither crew was directly alerted to the presence of the other aircraft by the Flight Service… Full accident record

Worst recorded outcome: destroyed (May 1, 1995).

May 1, 1995Accidentdestroyed
Piper PA-31-350 · Sioux Lookout (12 N.w.) · 8 fatalities · A95H0008
A95h0008: air sandy, a piper pa-31 navajo, with one crew and four passengers onboard had departed sioux lookout enroute to red lake. Bearskin airways, a fairchild swearingen metro 23, with two crew and one passenger, was inbound to sioux lookout on a flight from red lake. The two aircraft collided at 4,500 feet asl…