The Toughest Flying Country in the World

[pelmet]

https://archive.macleans.ca/article/195 ... d#!&pid=14

Article is a bit dated.

[cncpc]

Its may be dated, but still a great find.

Winds aloft at 95 mph?

I was just a child in 56, but I clearly remember the search for the North Star. Some of those on board had played in the CFL All Star game in Vancouver, either that day or the day before, and we were football fans in our house, so we followed the search closely.

If I remember right, was the ADF not tuned to the Bellingham beacon by mistake?

What stage of development was Abbotsford at that time?

[200hr Wonder]

With regards to TCA Flight 810, cncp there is a book out there called Disaster on Mount Slesse - The Story of Western Canada's Worst Air Crash by Betty O'Keefe and Ian MacDonald, released 2006. You can get it at Amazon, or possibly your local library.

There was no final answers though if you look, they where more or less on the Abbotsford beacon inbound on about the same bearing to the beacon as Green 1 bearing, though off of the VR Beacon. It is quite possible with a fire warning, icing, and turbulence a mistake was made tuning the ADF.

This particular accident hits rather close to home as my Grandfather was a passenger. I have attached a few photos, and 1951 Chart, which still had the same airway structure.

A panorama of the crash site I took when I hiked it:



1951 Sectional



Some photos from around the crash site

[7ECA]

Slesse is an interesting place to go, especially in winter on a high cirrus type of day; very forbidding but also remarkably peaceful. It's a strange mountain, each side is unique and the drop offs are incredible.

As I recall from reading the aforementioned book, there never really was a definitive cause to the crash - although bad luck is certainly mentioned; with Slesse being the highest peak at 7,880' and things drop off to either side. Potentially a wingspans distance North or South and TCA810 may have made it...

[pelmet]

https://www.saobserver.net/news/wreckag ... ison-lake/

Just found this TSB brief in my In Box

Occurrence No.: A57P0001 Occurrence Type: ACCIDENT
Class: CLASS 5 Reportable Type:
Date: 1957-04-24 Time: 00:00:00 UTC
Region of
Responsibility:
PACIFIC
Location: 27.00 Nautical miles NNW From CYHE - HOPE
Country: CANADA Province: BRITISH COLUMBIA
Ground Injuries: Fatal: 0 Minor: 0
Serious: 0 Unknown: 0
---------- Aircraft 1 ----------
Registration: C-FIDP Operator:
Manufacturer: RYAN
AERONAUTICAL
Operator Type: PRIVATE
Model: NAVION CARS Sub Part: RECREATIONAL AVIATION
Injuries: Fatal: 2 Minor: 0
Serious: 0 None: 0
Unknown: 0
Occurrence Summary:
CF-IDP, a privately operated Ryan Aeronautical Navion aircraft was conducting a local flight from
Vancouver International Airport (CYVR), BC with one pilot and one passenger on board. The
aircraft collided with terrain 600' below the summit of Mount Breakenridge. Both occupants on
board were fatally injured and the aircraft was destroyed. There was no fire.


Fly safely.

[cncpc]

With regards to TCA Flight 810, cncp there is a book out there called Disaster on Mount Slesse - The Story of Western Canada's Worst Air Crash by Betty O'Keefe and Ian MacDonald, released 2006. You can get it at Amazon, or possibly your local library.

There was no final answers though if you look, they where more or less on the Abbotsford beacon inbound on about the same bearing to the beacon as Green 1 bearing, though off of the VR Beacon. It is quite possible with a fire warning, icing, and turbulence a mistake was made tuning the ADF.

This particular accident hits rather close to home as my Grandfather was a passenger. I have attached a few photos, and 1951 Chart, which still had the same airway structure.

A panorama of the crash site I took when I hiked it:



1951 Sectional



Some photos from around the crash site

Thanks. I was in grade three when it happened, but it was all over the radio every day. Even then, people were asking how you could lose an airliner.

It is a very forbidding looking place up close.