Lac-Caché - Lac-Caché

On July 18, 1987 at 12:00 AM, Lac-Caché - Lac-Caché experienced a crash involving Canadian Vickers PBV-1 Canso (OA-10 Canso), operated by Government of Quebec, with the event recorded near Lac-Caché Quebec.

The flight was categorized as training 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, 1 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 50.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The crew was completing a training mission at Lac-Caché, consisting of touch-and-go and scooping maneuvers. For unknown reasons, the seaplane landed hard, overturned and sank. One pilot was killed and the second was injured.

Aircraft reference details include registration C-FPQP, MSN CV-407, year of manufacture 1944.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 49.8234°, -74.4280°.