Air accident involving a Bristol 170 operated by Maritime Central Airways
| Air accident involving a Bristol 170 operated by Maritime Central Airways | |
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.jpg) A Norcanair Bristol 170 Freighter registered in Canada |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Loss of control after take-off due to the cargo slipping |
| place | at Frobisher Bay , Nunavut , Canada.svg){kind=small}
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| date | February 13, 1956 |
| Fatalities | 3 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Bristol 170
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| operator |
Maritime Central Airways
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| Mark |
CF-FZU
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| Departure airport |
Frobisher Bay Airport , Nunavut , Canada
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| Destination airport |
Simpson Lake Airstrip , Nunavut , Canada
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| Passengers | 0 |
| crew | 3 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The accident involving a Bristol 170 operated by Maritime Central Airways occurred on February 13, 1956 near Frobisher Bay in the Canadian province of Nunavut . A Bristol 170 of Maritime Central Airways , with which a charter cargo flight was to be carried out within the province of Nunavut, fell to the ground immediately after take-off, killing all three occupants. Poor or inadequate load securing was found to be the cause of the accident .
Aircraft and operator
The aircraft used was a Bristol 170 Freighter MK31 from British production, which was finally assembled the 1,953th It had the serial number 13136, the aircraft was a freight machine originally ex works. The machine was equipped with two 14-cylinder radial engines of the Bristol Hercules 734 type, each with 1,980 hp (1,456 kW). The machine had the aircraft registration CF-FZU . It was the only Bristol 170 in the fleet of Maritime Central Airways, founded in 1941 and taken over by Eastern Provincial Airways in 1963 .
crew
There was a three-person crew on board, consisting of the master, first officer and flight engineer. The Captain William H. Pepper was a Montreal resident Australian . The other two crew members were Canadian nationals.
Loading and destination
The flight was a charter flight that was operated for the military and was to be transported to the Simpson Lake Airstrip , a base on the Distant Early Warning Line , as part of its equipment . Among other things, the chassis of a five-ton tipper truck was loaded.
the accident
The plane took off from Frobisher Bay at 8:25 a.m. The captain who controlled the aircraft contacted air traffic control one minute after take-off and reported that the cargo had slipped backwards during take-off. He then tried to return to the airport. When the aircraft approached the end of the counter-approach straight at 8:27 a.m., it was possible to observe how its angle of attack increased. The machine then turned to the right and fell 1.5 miles (approximately 2.4 kilometers) away to the ground. Five seconds after impact, the plane exploded and burned out. The machine was destroyed and the three crew members on board were killed.
root cause
The cause of the accident was assumed to be that the truck chassis, which was inadequately secured, had rolled backwards during the take-off run, causing the machine's center of gravity to shift backwards beyond the permissible limit. During his attempt to fly the machine back to the airport, the captain lost control of the Bristol, which then stalled, turned sideways and fell to the ground.
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- Accident report Bristol 170 CF-FZU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 12, 2019.
- Australian pilot dies , The Age dated February 15, 1956.
- Operating history of the machine on rzjets.net
- Fleet list of aircraft of Maritime Central Airways