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The C tail number means the plane is Canadian, and the registration information shows it as a 1978 Piper PA-32R, a six- or seven-seat high-performance, single engine, fixed-wing aircraft.
File photo of a Piper PA-32 craft. Six people died after a single-engine Piper PA-32 plane crashed in Canada (Bob Adams/Flickr Creative Commons)
The aircraft involved in the crash was C-GXUC, a 7-year-old Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain which was manufactured in 1977. The aircraft was operated by Wapiti Aviation Ltd., a regional airline for Northern Alberta based in Grande Prairie which owned and operated 11 other aircraft at the time of the incident. [1]
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter: The aircraft crashed during approach, killing only the pilot. May 30, 1979 17 1 1 Downeast Flight 46: Rockland: Maine: de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter: The aircraft crashed after descending below glideslope during approach in poor visibility. May 25, 1979 273 2 0 American Airlines Flight 191: Des ...
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
The crash is under investigation by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which is leading the probe. On Tuesday the agency confirmed the aircraft's black boxes had been recovered from the ...
All 10 people were killed when a small plane came down in Alaska on 6 February Those incidents followed another high-profile crash in South Korea in December, in which 179 people were killed.
The number of deaths per passenger-mile on commercial airlines in the United States between 2000 and 2010 was about 0.2 deaths per 10 billion passenger-miles. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] For driving, the rate was 150 per 10 billion vehicle-miles for 2000 : 750 times higher per mile than for flying in a commercial airplane.