Crossroads Lake - Mistastin Lake

On July 15, 2019 at 12:00 AM, Crossroads Lake - Mistastin Lake experienced a crash involving De Havilland DHC-2 Beaver, operated by Air Saguenay, with the event recorded near Mistastin Lake Newfoundland & Labrador.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

7 people were known to be on board, 7 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 6, passenger fatalities: 6, other fatalities: 0.

The single engine airplane was chartered by a provider based in Crossroads Lake (near Churchill Falls reservoir) to fly four fisherman and two guides to Mistastin Lake, Labrador. The aircraft was supposed to leave Crossroads Lake at 0700LT but the departure was postponed to 1000LT due to low ceiling. Several attempts to contact the pilot failed during the day and the SAR center based in Trenton was alerted. The wreckage was found few hours later at the bottom of the lake, about a nautical mile from the shore. Three people were found dead while four other occupants, including the pilot, were not found after five days of intensive search. A week later, authorities confirmed all seven occupants died.

Aircraft reference details include registration C-FJKI, MSN 992, year of manufacture 1956.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 55.8901°, -63.2474°.