Grand Manan Medevac Accident

[frog]

http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/family-frien ... -1.1972886

[cncpc]

A second pilot and a registered nurse survived the crash.

Maybe they can shed more light on what happened?

That has happened.

It was around 5 am. Klaus had put in 10 hours of single pilot IFR the previous day.

There have been other accidents beside the first Navajo.

[pelmet]

There have been other accidents beside the first Navajo.

I met Klaus back in 2008 when he came into Halifax to do a PCC for us on a Navajo..... On the runup for the flight, which was also the test flight for a newly installed overhauled engine, we saw the oil pressure drop well out of the green. I questioned that and he said we'll go and see how it works out, it wold probably come back. We took off, and it never did come back, and we came back to land. He went home to Manan and we got a guy from Capital in Fredericton to do the PCC after an engineer turned some screw that fixed the oil pressure issue.

He was quite an unusual man and it was quite clear that he believed himself to be a different type of pilot.

Some pilots are an accident waiting to happen or in this case, another accident waiting to happen.




The Atlantic Charters Piper PA-31 (C-GKWE) aircraft had carried out a medevac flight from Grand Manan to St. John, New Brunswick. The aircraft was returning from St. John with 2 crew and 2 passengers. While attempting to land at Grand Manan the pilot carried out a missed approach. During the second approach with the landing gear extended, the aircraft touched down on a road that was perpendicular to the runway about 450 metres from the threshold. The aircraft departed the road and continued through about 30 metres of brush before becoming airborne. The aircraft impacted the ground left of the runway centerline about 300 metres from the threshold. One pilot and one passenger sustained fatal injuries. The other pilot and passenger sustained serious injuries. The aircraft was destroyed; an ELT signal was received.