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Issue 26, March 2003

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• An All Too Familiar Scenario
• Unsuccessful Autorotation Following Fuel Starvation
• TCAS Comes Through
• Cargo Bay In-flight Fire - Interim Recommendations
• Update: In-flight Fire Accident at Montreal
• Statistics
• Summaries
• Final Reports

Figures

• Figure 1 - Point of closest approach.

Photos

• Photo 1 - The Regionnair Raytheon Beech 1900D that crashed on approach to Sept-les airport in August 2002.
• Photo 2 - Wreckage of a Bell 214B helicopter near Kaslo, British Columbia, in July 1999.
• Photo 3 - A portion of the helicopter's tail assembly.
• Photo 4 - A typical air traffic controller workstation.
• Photo 5 - Heater ribbon failure and contaminated insulation blankets contributed to a fire in an Air Canada aircraft cargo hold such as this.
• Photo 6 - Fire damage caused by a faulty water-line ribbon heater. Note the heat-induced distortion to the beam structure.
• Photo 7 - Contaminated thermal-insulation blankets such as these pose considerable fire hazards.
• Photo 8 - The Fairchild/Swearingen Metroliner II that broke apart over runway 24 at Mirabel on 18 June 1998.
• Photo 9 - TSB research since 1983 has revealled that SA226s and SA227s suffer frequent landing gear and tire failures, wheel fires and loss of control on ground.
• Photo 10 - Damage to an Astra SPX, which struck treetops on approach to Fox Harbour, Nova Scotia, in March 2000.
• Photo 11 - A combination of factors led to the crash of this Douglas DC-3 in which both pilots perished at Ennadai Lake, Nunavut, on 17 March 2000.

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