Ginger Coote Airways

Noorduyn Norseman

While in cruising flight, the engine fired. The pilot reduced his altitude in an attempt to make an emergency landing. On touchdown, the single engine aircraft overturned and came to rest. All four occupants were seriously injured while the aircraft was wrecked.

Fairchild 51

On a flight from Vancouver to the Zeballos Gold Mine, the single engine aircraft hit tall trees and crashed in a wooded remote area located near Alberni Canal, some 24 km west of Port Alberni. Nine months later, March 9, 1939, British Columbia police found the wreckage of the missing aircraft strewn at the foot of several tall trees in a bush-covered hill section near Alberni Canal (presently Alberni Inlet) about 13 miles (21 km) from Port Alberni. Inside the crumpled fuselage were the remains of the missing persons: pilot Len Waagens, passenger Mary Nichelson (wife of George Nicholson, postmaster and airline agent at Zeballos), and the two other passengers. Source: http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Fairchild/4534.htm