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TSB deploys a team of investigators to a helicopter accident in Key Lake, Saskatchewan
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Track geometry, train marshalling and high forces exerted on couplers between cars led to derailment at Taschereau Yard in November 2013
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TSB deploys a team of investigators to Calgary, Alberta to assess an aviation occurrence
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September 2013 train derailment in Calgary, Alberta resulted when wheels climbed over a railway switch point
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TSB deploys a team to the site of a derailment involving a CP freight train east of Thunder Bay, Ontario
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TSB investigation into August 2013 B.C. floatplane crash identifies flight at low level in poor weather as causal
Reports
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Derailment, Canadian National Railway, Freight train M37231-05, Mile 144.4, St-Laurent Subdivision, Taschereau Yard, Montréal, Quebec, 6 November 2013
Released onOn 06 November 2013, at approximately 0505 Eastern Standard Time, Canadian National freight train M37231-05 derailed 10 empty cars while travelling through a tight curve at Taschereau Yard in Montréal, Quebec. The derailed cars and the track were damaged. There were no injuries.
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Main-track derailment of Canadian Pacific Railway freight train 467-11 at Mile 0.30, Red Deer Subdivision, Calgary, Alberta on 11 September 2013
Released onOn 11 September 2013, at about 1630 Mountain Daylight Time, Canadian Pacific Railway freight train 467-11 departing northward from Alyth Yard in Calgary, Alberta, en route to Red Deer, Alberta, derailed 7 tank cars loaded with liquid hydrocarbons at Mile 0.30 on the Red Deer Subdivision, in the Inglewood neighborhood of Calgary. About 600 feet of track was destroyed. There were no injuries and there was no product loss.
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Controlled flight into terrain of Air Nootka Ltd., de Havilland DHC-2 (floatplane) C-GPVB at Hesquiat Lake, British Columbia 3 nm W on 16 August 2013
Released onAt 1015 Pacific Daylight Time, the de Havilland DHC-2 (Beaver) floatplane (registration C-GPVB, serial number 871), operated by Air Nootka Ltd., departed Hesquiat Lake, British Columbia, with the pilot and 5 passengers for Air Nootka Ltd.’s water aerodrome base near Gold River, British Columbia. Visibility at Hesquiat Lake was about 2 ½ nautical miles in rain, and the cloud ceiling was about 400 feet above lake and sea level. Approximately 3 nautical miles west of the lake, while over Hesquiat Peninsula, the aircraft struck a tree top at about 800 feet above sea level and crashed.
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Loss of control, collision with water of Transwest Air Limited Partnership, de Havilland DHC-3 Otter, C-FSGD at Ivanhoe Lake, Northwest Territories, 7 nm S on 22 August 2013
Released onThe float-equipped Transwest Air Limited Partnership DHC-3 turbine Otter (registration C-FSGD, serial number 316) departed Scott Lake, Northwest Territories, at approximately 1850 Central Standard Time on a 33-nautical mile, day, visual flight rules flight to Ivanhoe Lake, Northwest Territories. The aircraft did not arrive at its destination, and was reported overdue at approximately 2100. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Trenton was notified by the company. There was no emergency locator transmitter signal.