Air transportation

Recommendations from investigation of Perimeter Aviation Flight 993 crash in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut in December 2012

Occurrence

On 22 December 2012, Perimeter Aviation Flight 993 crashed while attempting to land in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut. The aircraft had come in too high, too steep, and too fast, striking the ground 525 feet past the end of the runway after an unsuccessful attempt to reject the landing. The 2 crew and 6 adult passengers, secured by their seatbelts, suffered injuries ranging from minor to serious.

TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD OF CANADA
AVIATION SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS

DATE ISSUED: 27 March 2008

FORWARDED TO:

The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, P.C., B.A., M.B.A.
Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities

SUBJECT: Emergency Fuel Shut-Off

TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD OF CANADA
AVIATION SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS

DATE ISSUED: 27 March 2008

FORWARDED TO:

The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, P.C., B.A., M.B.A.
Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities

SUBJECT: Regulation of Passenger-Carrying Balloons

Backgrounder - Landing Accident in Fox Harbour, Nova Scotia
Investigation Report A07A0134 - Recommendations

On 11 November 2007, the Bombardier Global 5000 (registration C-GXPR, serial number 9211), operated by Jetport Inc., departed Hamilton, Ontario, for Fox Harbour, Nova Scotia, with two crew members and eight passengers on board.

On August 2, 2005, the Air France Airbus A340-313 aircraft departed Paris, France, at 11:53 a.m. Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) as Air France Flight 358 on a scheduled flight to Toronto, Ontario, with 297 passengers and 12 crew members on board. Before departure, the flight crew members obtained their arrival weather forecast, which included the possibility of thunderstorms.

The information in the chronology of events has been provided by various sources to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada within the context of the Air France Airbus A340-313 accident investigation (A05H0002).

On 06 March 2005 at 06:45 a.m. (Greenwich mean time), Air Transat Flight 961, left Varadero, Cuba, for Québec, Quebec, and encountered stability problems 17 minutes after take-off. The aircraft, an Airbus A310, was cleared to a lower altitude and stabilized. Because the company had maintenance facilities in Varadero, the crew requested a return to that locale and successfully landed. Upon landing, it was observed that the rudder had separated from the aircraft. It had 262 passengers and 9 crew members on board.