Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Missing Ontario pilot found safe

A pilot reported missing on a flight to northern Ontario has been located and is OK, according to the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Trenton.

The Department of National Defence said the aircraft left Caesarea, Ont., Saturday evening and was en route to Cree Lake, Ont. Earlier reports indicated the plane was reported missing after failing to arrive at Hornepayne, Ont.

The rescue centre was notified about the missing pilot and aircraft Sunday evening.

Transportation Safety Board spokesperson Don Enns said the pilot of a single-engine Stinson 108 float plane decided to put the aircraft down on a lake after noticing an oil leak.

"I guess the landing wasn't quite as smooth as he had hoped and [he ran] into trees and muskeg ... at the far end of the area he was trying to land in," Enns told the CBC. "[There was] substantial damage to the airplane but fortunately not much damage to himself."

Enns says the TSB is interested in learning the source of the oil leak that caused the emergency landing, but noted it will not be sending a team to the incident site, northeast of Wawa, for any on-sight investigation.

Enns said the TSB was told the pilot had recently purchased the plane and was in the process of relocating it​.


The damaged aircraft was spotted Monday by a Royal Canadian Air Force Hercules in a swampy area northeast of Wawa. The pilot was not injured.

Two Hercules planes, two Griffon helicopters, and several civilian air search and rescue aircraft took part in the operation to locate the man who had taken off from Lake Skugog, north of Oshawa, Ont.

The aircraft was spotted Monday by a Royal Canadian Air Force Hercules, in a swampy area.

The pilot was picked up by helicopter.



http://www.cbc.ca

 
Search and rescue (SAR) crews from the Royal Canadian Air Force, Civil Air Search and Rescue Association, and Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) together located and rescued a missing pilot yesterday northeast of Chapleau, Ontario, following an extensive search. 

 The pilot had departed on Saturday, October 12 for a 740-kilometre trip from Caesarea to Cree Lake, Ontario. He was reported overdue to Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) Trenton at approximately 8:45 p.m. (EDT) on Sunday, October 13.

Upon being notified of the overdue pilot, JRCC Trenton tasked a CC-130 Hercules aircraft from 8 Wing Trenton, Ont., which searched through the night. Following this initial response, numerous other aircraft participated in an extensive search coordinated by the JRCC. The search covered an area of about 27,000 square kilometres.

A CC-130 Hercules from 17 Wing Winnipeg homed in on an electronic locator transmitter that went off in the search area earlier on Monday, October 14th. SAR technicians parachuted into the site of the transmitter, where they found the pilot uninjured. They were extracted by helicopter and transported to Chapleau, Ontario at approximately 5 p.m. (EDT) Monday, where the OPP arranged for the pilot’s return home.

In Canada, SAR is a shared responsibility among federal, provincial/territorial and municipal organizations, as well as air, ground and maritime volunteer SAR organizations.


http://www.wawa-news.com

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