Aviation News: De Havilland Beaver Floatplane COLLISION With Boat!

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Published 2024-06-12

In this quick surprise installment of Aviation News we will discuss the recent collision and resulting accident of the Harbour Air Canada Sea Plane that occurred on June The plane in question (C-FFHA) 🇨🇦 was a 75 year old De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver equipped with pontoons and designated as a "Sea Plane" or Floatplane. this is an interesting accident due to the circumstances and we will discuss what is known so far and what could've likely happened to contribute to this accident. * Thankfully this accident only left passengers on the plane and the boat with minor injuries and no fatalities occurred! The only "fatality" was to this beautiful airplane, which will never fly again.* This could've ended much worse but thankfully & miraculously due to the quick thinking of the pilot and the people aboard the boat, everyone survived!

The official cause of this accident is still unknown and under investigation by the relevant aviation authorities and I don't wanna make any speculations as to the cause of the accident but when the cause of the accident is revealed, I will leave a pinned comment to the investigation report below ⬇️
asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/389255
Additionally my friends and fellow trip reporters Wingin' It Paul Lucas ⁠‪@Paul_Lucas‬ and Noel Phillips ⁠‪@noelphilips‬ Both have made excellent videos flying on Harbour Air and since I have yet to fly on any float planes yet, I have linked both of their awesome videos here & to the end of this video. Please feel free to check them out and subscribe to their channels as well, they both rock! If you're one of them watching, cheers mates! 🥂
Paul's Video: • AMAZING Vancouver Seaplane trip - Har...
Noel's Video: • Onboard North America's LARGEST Seapl...
Enjoy The Video!
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©️ Caleb's Aviation 2024

0:00 Intro & The DHC-2 Beaver
1:18 The Accident's Unique Circumstances
2:25 More Info About The Beaver/Floatplane Ops
3:30 Some Theories/What Went Wrong & Ou

All Comments (4)

@TishaHayes 11 days ago

I have flown Harbor Air out of Vancouver over to Victoria several times. Spectacular little planes. I do not think the pilots have much visibility.
@jbrous3602 8 days ago

Looking at this, looks like pilot thought he could make a attempt to hop over. Instead if he had a load and saw the boat, I would have rolled the plane onto the right float for take off behind the boat. I've done this many time to get more lift to take off, other wise the atc needs to be more forceful demanding the pilot to abort...which means pull over and nose in the floats and drop rudders at the same time...should be part of training.
@paradad999 11 days ago

Both pilot and boat skipper should be banned for life and sent to the nearest optician!!