Vancouver - Zeballos

On May 27, 1938 at 12:00 AM, Vancouver - Zeballos experienced a crash involving Fairchild 51, operated by Ginger Coote Airways, with the event recorded near Port Alberni British Columbia.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

4 people were known to be on board, 4 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: 3, passenger fatalities: 3, other fatalities: 0.

On a flight from Vancouver to the Zeballos Gold Mine, the single engine aircraft hit tall trees and crashed in a wooded remote area located near Alberni Canal, some 24 km west of Port Alberni. Nine months later, March 9, 1939, British Columbia police found the wreckage of the missing aircraft strewn at the foot of several tall trees in a bush-covered hill section near Alberni Canal (presently Alberni Inlet) about 13 miles (21 km) from Port Alberni. Inside the crumpled fuselage were the remains of the missing persons: pilot Len Waagens, passenger Mary Nichelson (wife of George Nicholson, postmaster and airline agent at Zeballos), and the two other passengers. Source: http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Fairchild/4534.htm

Aircraft reference details include registration CF-AUX, MSN 769, year of manufacture 1934.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 49.2603°, -124.8180°.