Sioux Lookout - Sioux Lookout

On July 12, 1981 at 12:00 AM, Sioux Lookout - Sioux Lookout experienced a crash involving Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, operated by The Flying Fireman, with the event recorded near Sioux Lookout Ontario.

The flight was categorized as fire fighting and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

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

The crew was engaged in a fire fighting mission in the region of Sioux Lookout and was completing a scooping maneuver on Lake Jackson when the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances. Both pilots were injured and the aircraft was destroyed.

Aircraft reference details include registration C-GFFJ, MSN 2067, year of manufacture 1944.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 50.1010°, -91.9152°.