Avro 748 crash, Aug 6, 1998, Kasabonika
Avro 748 accident on August 6, 1998 near Kasabonika, Ontario, Canada with no fatalities. Cause: The aircraft was landed at a point from which it could...
- Date: August 6, 1998
- Aircraft: Avro 748
- Location: Kasabonika, Ontario, Canada
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The aircraft was landed at a point from which it could not be stopped under the prevailing conditions, with the propellers not in ground fine pitch and runway 03 chosen as the landing runway; the runway analysis manual data may also have been a factor.
A Wasaya Airways Hawker Siddeley 748 on a freight flight from Pickle Lake landed at Kasabonika and could not stop on the runway. It overran the runway by about 450 feet and was destroyed. Three of the four people on board received minor injuries.