With 20 gallons of fuel, BEW of around 1450, and a MTOW of 2300lbs, that leaves 180lbs/person. Perfectly okay. He dipped the tanks in Tofino and had 20 gallons. That's 2.5 hours at 8 gph. Plenty of fuel. Yes, he ran out of fuel, but the puzzling question is why? Was the dipstick inaccurate (wrong st...

The MAT Twin Otter seaplane remained afloat and upright but one of the floats was damaged, leaving it leaning to one side with one wing extended into the water. A damaged float...hardly a crash. Let's not get too dramatic here. If you blow a tire on a hard landing, and the airplane is crippled on th...

Sounds more like a hard landing than a crash.

But hey, let's go ahead and speculate with rumours because it's so productive.