Encore wrinkles a Dash-8

[GyvAir]

Drift happens.

[Canoehead]

Is the airplane still in Terrace or did they get it out of there?

[iflyforpie]

Was still there as of a couple days ago. They have it nosed into a small hangar.

A bit less conspicuous than half on a flat deck trailer in full view of the terminal.

[Inverted2]

Did it get flown out?

[North Shore]

Nope, it's still there. (as of about three days ago..)

[pelmet]

C-FKWE, a WestJet Encore De Havilland DHC-8-402, was operating flight WEN3107 from
Vancouver Intl (CYVR), BC to Terrace (CYXT), BC with 4 crew members and 43 passengers
onboard. During the landing roll on RWY 33, the aircraft departed the cleared area of the runway to
the left, contacted a windrow, travelled partially off the runway surface, returned to the runway and
stopped. After the aircraft stopped, the flight crew requested ARFF. There were no injuries. The
damage to the aircraft included the nose wheel collapsing and damage to the right propeller
blades.

[Inverted2]

So is this bird back in service?

[Inverted2]

Disregard I see she’s back in the skies.

[FurHat]

C-FKWE, a WestJet Encore De Havilland DHC-8-402, was operating flight WEN3107 from
Vancouver Intl (CYVR), BC to Terrace (CYXT), BC with 4 crew members and 43 passengers
onboard. During the landing roll on RWY 33, the aircraft departed the cleared area of the runway to
the left, contacted a windrow, travelled partially off the runway surface, returned to the runway and
stopped. After the aircraft stopped, the flight crew requested ARFF. There were no injuries. The
damage to the aircraft included the nose wheel collapsing and damage to the right propeller
blades.

Report out for this one;

https://www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/rapports- ... p0013.html

[notwhoyouthinkIam]

Factors contributing to the crash (in layman's terms):

• Runway markings and lights were covered and made it difficult to see the runway
• The airport cleared 100 feet of runway leaving a foot and a half windrows on either side
• The aircraft landed left of the centerline by 10 feet and then was pushed further left by a gust of wind into the windrow
• The left gear hitting the windrow pulled it further into the windrow
• The nose gear bay was filled with snow and ice, causing the sides of the bay to bow out, releasing the nose gear from it's pivot point and allowing it to fall out.

[co-joe]

It's interesting because I believe this will be our first winter in Canada without CRFI. For us, a CFRI below 0.25 was limiting and would couldn't have landed, the crew spending time relaying ACARs message back and forth about this is understandable since WS decided to delete all info pertaining to CRFI before it was required by necessity. Now that you have RCAM only, I find it a bit more confusing, but as time goes we'll all get better using it.

Also interesting looking back at how many hours they had in the preceding month. I don't have that many hours on my type in the last year right now.

[Commonwealth]

Did you hear the one about the 10,000 hour Captain who despite having the correct instincts was pushed by his employer into an unsafe situation? Quite a failure of the Encore organization.

[rigpiggy]

Boeing Standard is 1/2 the constant and all the gust up to 15 kts. I flew an approach in NL where we alternated between Vy and VFE 40 kt swings, it was wild.