Pickle Lake – Sandy Lake

On June 12, 2012 at 01:43 PM, Pickle Lake – Sandy Lake experienced a crash involving Avro 748, operated by Wasaya Airways, with the event recorded near Sandy Lake Ontario.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was parking at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) 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 listed crash cause is other causes. The aircraft was parked on the ramp at Sandy Lake Airport. The flight crew had disembarked and were off-loading the cargo (JET A-1 jet fuel drums) from the aircraft to fuel tanks adjacent to the ramp. A fire broke out and the flight crew used the available fire extinguishers but the fire spread and consumed most of the aircraft that was totally destroyed. There were no injuries.

Aircraft reference details include registration C-FTTW, MSN 1681, year of manufacture 1970.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 53.0568°, -93.3260°.