Pacific Coastal Airlines | George Hatcher's Air Flight Disaster https://airflightdisaster.com Aviation News, Headlines & Alerts Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:44:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Pacific Coastal Airlines Grumman Goose Crash, 1 survivor https://airflightdisaster.com/pacific-coastal-airlines-grumman-goose-crash-1-survivor/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:43:57 +0000 http://airflightdisaster.com/?p=1384 What: Pacific Coastal Airlines Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft chartered to deliver personnel and supplies to an energy project under construction for Plutonic Power Corporation in Toba Valley. The flight left Vancouver at 10:17 a.m. for Powell River but never arrived. Where: crashed into a hillside on Thormanby Island 56 miles Northwest of Vancouver When: Sunday...

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What: Pacific Coastal Airlines Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft chartered to deliver personnel and supplies to an energy project under construction for Plutonic Power Corporation in Toba Valley. The flight left Vancouver at 10:17 a.m. for Powell River but never arrived.
Where: crashed into a hillside on Thormanby Island 56 miles Northwest of Vancouver
When: Sunday
Who: 8 aboard, 1 survivor. The badly burned survivor took approximately two hours to climb down from the crash site. Terrain and foggy weather hampered rescuers.
Why: under investigation

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