Eastern Provincial Flight 102 - 17-Mar-1965

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Eastern Provincial Flight 102 - 17-Mar-1965

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Eastern Provincial Flight 102 departed Moncton at 06:35 on a flight to Torbay with several intermediate stops. The Herald departed Halifax's runway 33 at 09:10 and was instructed to turn right and climb to FL130. While climbing through FL120 the underfloor fuselage skin ruptured. It opened up sufficiently to be contacted by one of the propellers. Disruption of the structure and subsequent progressive separation of the nose and front fuselage resulted in failures of the control levers. Separation of the remaining empennage and the aft section of the fuselage followed instantaneously. The debris came down in heavily wooded rolling terrain.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "Failure of corroded skin area along the bottom centre line of the aircraft beneath stringer No.32 which resulted in structural failure of the fuselage and aerial disintegration." - Aviation Safety Network
I was talking to an old manager about this crash, and he said it was probably still in the woods. I wanted to go find it based on the coordinates that are plugged into the Google map at the Aviation Safety Network http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 19650317-2.

I was wondering if anyone had any more info about the crash, and whether it would be worth a romp in the woods. I'd like to get some topo maps and aerial photos and go seek this out. The google maps location states that it's the exact location based on the information from the original report.
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A link to the Flight Circular from 1966 http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/ ... 00291.html
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Re: Eastern Provincial Flight 102 - 17-Mar-1965

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Figure out where the old Copper Lake NDB was, I seem to recall he was abeam the beacon on the airway to Sydney when the airplane came apart.
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I did some research at the NS Archives and found a news paper article from that time.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByFs87N ... sp=sharing

I've also requested a copy of the final report from TC from 1965. I'll let you know how that goes. I hope they have co-ordinates in the report I can use.
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Topo chart(011E02) just down from Jennings Lake. Resolution on Google Earth isn't tight enough to display however being close to 48 yrs, kinda doubt you would see anything. In my TC days I did meet and was acquainted with one of the older people from Atlantic who was part of the investigation. Those days Transport did accident investigations and this individual(DH) told us about crawling around the twisted remains of the smashed up cockpit.
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Re: Eastern Provincial Flight 102 - 17-Mar-1965

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A recent forum discussion about this accident:
http://www.nsexplore.ca/aircraft-crash- ... rash-1965/
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Re: Eastern Provincial Flight 102 - 17-Mar-1965

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I have recently received the Structures Group report from the Library and Archives of Canada in Ottawa. Here a link to a PDF. It's a large file at 107 MB, so have some patients.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByFs87N ... sp=sharing

The main body of the wreckage was said to be almost 97% taken out of the woods. So I don't think it's worth it to make a trek in as there would be very little left.
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