407 Driver Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...191/?hub=Canada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest graunch1 Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 News in YYC tonight said that the Electra had a crew of two on-board. I guess AirSpray flys them that way but the aircraft original Type Certificate was for a three person crew. The Flight Engineer who monitors the fuel, pressurization and the power levers on TO and they must have changed their procedure when they modified them into water bombers. Be interested to see what happened if it was mecanical or human error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downwash Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 It seems there was a power line strike involved which doesn''t, of course, preclude there having been an earlier problem. It would be foolish to make assumptions at this stage, but after a number of drops in the same area, the aircraft seems to have made a lower run and struck the power line, which could certainly have been precipitated by some other problem. Let''s just hope they can produce some conclusive reasons as the investigation progresses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pratt Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 A terrible tragedy, they were a very experienced crew. I knew the Captain pretty well. Speaking to a friend who is involved with the investigation, there was no mention of a power line strike. There was eye witness accounts that I saw saying that they flew low over some power lines, ( on the local news reports). But from what I understood the power lines were some distance away from the actual crash site. They are not focusing on that as being the cause of the accident from what I was told. I can't make any further comments on it, but apparently the preliminary report should be out be for too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downwash Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 Thanks for that, Pratt. I'd far sooner it was definitely not the power lines, even if it does leave us wondering for longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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