British Columbia

The aircraft departed Vancouver to take part to a SAR mission following the disappearance of a Ryan B-5 Brougham operated by the Canadian Aerial Explorations that crashed in north BC last October 10. The accident occurred in unknown circumstances, killing all three occupants.

On October 9, 1930 Captain E. J. 'Paddy' Burke departed Atlin in his float-equipped aircraft with two passengers on board, bound for Liard Post. On the return flight the next day, snow squalls forced the trio to land on the Liard River to await better weather. When persistent weather problems forced a third landing Liard River, a float was damaged, leaving the aircraft and its three occupants stranded, considerably off course from the straight line track between Atlin and Liard Post. A massive search was launched, and eventually abandoned. By November 12, only one search plane doggedly persisted. It was Everett Wasson and trapper Joe Walsh in the Treadwell Yukon Fairchild G-CARM. On November 24 Walsh and Wasson spotted the abandoned, snow covered aircraft, and 12 days later discovered two survivors forty miles up the Liard River from the plane. Pilot Paddy Burke had died of exposure and starvation. Aircraft mechanic Emil Kading and passenger Bob Martin had survived 2 months in the winter wilderness with very little food or equipment. The nearest suitable landing site for Wasson's ski equipped Fairchild was 10 miles from the starving survivor's camp. After three days of snowshoeing, sledding and back-packing, Wasson and Walsh had Kadding and Martin safely aboard the Fairchild, on there way to Whitehorse. Six days later Wasson returned to the Liard River and retrieved the body of Paddy Burke. And so ended on of the longest air search in Canadian history. The Following spring a salvage crew removed the Junkers from its ice bound floats, installed a set of skies, and flew the aircraft out. In the original text, the aircraft involved was mentioned as being a Junkers F.13.

Source: Yukon Transportation Museum, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory

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Crashed on landing. Both pilots injured.

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While cruising at a height of 1,500 feet, the pilot initiated a sharp turn when he lost control of the aircraft that spun into the ground and was destroyed by a post crash fire. The pilot A. E. Bennett was killed.

The pilot, sole on board, was completing a local training flight at Victoria Airport. On final approach, while completing a last turn at a height of 50 feet, the engine failed. The aircraft stalled and crashed short of runway. The pilot was injured.

Crashed in foggy conditions. The pilot, sole on board, was injured.

En route, the pilot encountered low visibility due to heavy rain falls. To obtain more visibility, he decided to clean the windshield but he did not realize he was losing altitude. The seaplane hit the water surface and crashed. All three occupants were injured.

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