Victoria - Victoria

On July 16, 1967 at 05:40 PM, Victoria - Victoria experienced a crash involving Canadian Vickers PBV-1 Canso (OA-10 Canso), operated by The Flying Fireman, with the event recorded near Victoria British Columbia.

The flight was categorized as fire fighting and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew was called at 1630LT for a forest fire that erupted on Skirt mountain near Victoria. The crew first made a scooping mission on the Saanich Inlet with more than 1,000 gallons of water. About an hour later, while flying at low height, the left wing of Tanker 772 struck a tree and the airplane crashed. Both pilots were killed, Alex Davidson (founder of The Flying Fireman) and Robert 'Paddy' Moore. The mission was completed on behalf of the BC Forest Service.

Aircraft reference details include registration CF-FFX, MSN CV-293, year of manufacture 1941.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 48.4283°, -123.3650°.