Canadian Vickers PBV-1 Canso (OA-... crash, May 12, 1962 (15 killed)
Canadian Vickers PBV-1 Canso (OA-10 Canso) accident on May 12, 1962 near Nuuk Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq, Greenland with 15 fatalities. Cause: A...
- Date: May 12, 1962
- Aircraft: Canadian Vickers PBV-1 Canso (OA-10 Canso)
- Location: Nuuk Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq, Greenland
- Fatalities: 15
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: A technical investigation concluded that the nose wheel doors had not closed properly, probably due to mechanical failure; the doors tore off on landing and water entered the nose wheel bay.
An Eastern Provincial Airways Canso flying boat operating for Greenlandair sank in the harbour at Nuuk, then called Godthab, on 12 May 1962 after landing on the water. Fifteen of the 21 people on board drowned. Investigators found that the nose wheel doors had not closed properly and were torn off, letting water into the hull.