Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3) crash, Mar 17, 2000 (2 killed)
Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3) accident on March 17, 2000 near Ennadai Lake, Nunavut, Canada with 2 fatalities. Cause: The pilot lost control during a...
- Date: March 17, 2000
- Aircraft: Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3)
- Location: Ennadai Lake, Nunavut, Canada
- Fatalities: 2
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The pilot lost control during a go-around from a balked landing on an ice strip, with the aircraft loaded beyond its aft centre of gravity limit and carbon monoxide contamination from a heater leak as contributing factors.
A Points North Air DC-3 on a cargo flight to an ice strip on Ennadai Lake touched down about halfway along the strip and lifted off almost immediately. It then entered a steep nose-up attitude during the go-around, banked left and crashed into the ice, killing both crew. The TSB found that the aircraft was loaded beyond its aft centre of gravity limit and that carbon monoxide from a heater leak had reached the cockpit.