Hawker on Fire in Sandy Lake

[Meatservo]

I always enjoyed watching the Hawker zooming around when I worked in Ontario during the late Kelner/early Wasaya days.. I knew a fair number of the crews and thought they were good guys. They've been threatening to get rid of those things for years and there are fewer of them all the time. I'm glad the crew didn't get burned or injured. What terrible luck.

[whiteguy]

The pumps they use are a standard 2 inch water pump. I fixed many of them. The difference between a water pump and an explosion proof one are bronze internals, a shield on the muffler to prevent it getting sprayed with fuel and a sealed aircraft style ignition system. They are slower and aren't Honda reliable but they exist for a reason.

This exact same thing happened to the first 801 in 1991, C-FKTL it burnt down in Big Trout. The seal between the outlet neck and the main body failed and a stream of fuel hit the muffler. This was first hand info from the PIC who in the recent past spent some time in the wringer that is wasaya base management...

KTL was 802, LTC has always been 801. KTL was an unpressurized big door model. It didn't exactly burn down, it had damage to the area around the back door and some of the skin. It was ferried back to YPL a couple days after the incident.

The first incident was 801 FKTL( serial number 1613, small door), this aircraft was flown out of Big Trout and now sits to this day in Bar River as it was deemed a write off. The registration was used again on serial number 1778,FKTL 802(big door), when Kelner bought two 748's from the middle east. Kelner bought Canadian registered GLTC right after the fire and numbered it 801. It was shortly after converted to the tanker. In the late 90's Wasaya sold FKTL(802) to a freight company in Sweden.

So when was the KTL fire in Big Trout? LTC was 801 when I started up there in '89. It was the 1 and only Hawker at Kelner at the time.

[FISH-FLY]

Anyone have any info on what is happening with Transport Canada's shut-down of fuel hauling operations?

[Doc]

Anybody in the industry with half a brain will be putting deposits on every 802 Air Tractor they can find on the market.
Engine driven (PTO?) off loading of product.
Single pilot.
Prop brake.
Can't think of a safer alternative?
Day, VFR.
Too simple?
Perhaps.
Politics will govern. It always does.