Beech Bonanza Down - Seneca College

[dcabrown]

Just flashed on CP24.

No details yet, other than the station reporting a "Beech 33" is down in the 407 and ??? area. Sounded like the eastern part of the GTA. Reported that 3 people were on board. No details on their condition.

Anyone have additional details?

[bizjets101]

No details, hear there is a Beechcraft??, sitting in a field near Highway 407 and Whitevale Road.
Just East of Markham. Buttonville departure/arrival??

Beech 33 is a Bonanza.

[Tim]

Plane crash east of Toronto kills 3
Last Updated: Thursday, November 18, 2010 | 9:14 PM ET Comments0Recommend2
CBC News
All three people aboard a small four-seater plane that crashed near Pickering, just east of Toronto, are dead.

Durham Regional Police were told at around 7 p.m. ET Thursday that the plane crashed in a field north of Pickering, near Whitevale Road.

Officers are on the scene of the crash. Police describe the plane as a Beech 33.

More to come



Read more

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/ ... z15gtmQypy

[bizjets101]

Seneca College has 5 F33A's based at YKZ.

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Seneca's Beech fleet including the five Bonanza's.

[Heliian]

Very sad, Torontosun reports that it may have been one of seneca's.

[bizjets101]

I can confirm it is one of Seneca's Bonanza's.

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[kp1]

PICKERING - Three people died in the wreckage of a small plane crash north of Pickering Thursday night, a fire official said.

Capt. Tim Jeffery of the Pickering Fire Service said the trio was aboard a single-engine aircraft that got into trouble and went down in an apparently empty field with homes nearby, in the area of Whitevale Rd., Sideline 24 and

Hwy. 407.

Jeffery said the aircraft, carrying three people, was used by Seneca College.

The plane vanished from radar monitors and police were notified.

A Durham Regional Police spokesman was unavailable to confirm any details.

—Manny Rodrigues and Ian Robertson

[crooked timber]

RIP

[JBI]

This is awful news. My Condolences to the family and friends.

[bizjets101]

Okay, aircraft in today's accident is C-GSCZ.

This is the same plane that has had a couple of mishaps of late, including the emergency landing in 2008 on a highway in upstate New York.

Click Here for pilots notes on the successful forced landing of C-GSCZ.

AvCanada thread re- highway landing

Click Here report from 2009 when C-GSCZ declared an in-flight emergency regarding run away trim on approach to Waterloo.

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[lownslow]

Sad news indeed. My thoughts go out to the families of all involved.

Without getting into any internet speculation (seriously, let's not do that), think to yourself about any possible reason this could have happened and do your very best to avoid the same situation tonight, tomorrow and always. Stay safe, everyone.

LnS.

[Apollo]

RIP to the instructor and students, you will be sorely missed.

[WHIPPER]

My sincerest condolences to the families and friends of the lost.

If anyone knows the name of the instructor, PM me PLEASE!!! So many good instructors at the college. What a tragedy...

[frozen solid]

PM me too please. It's terrible when something like this happens but even more terrible in the close-knit group of students at a college.

[gustind]

RIP to the three. Very good friends with all of them. Condolences to their families.

Best Regards,

[Chaxterium]

Wow. I'm just beside myself here. This is terrible news. My deepest condolences to the three families. I can't imagine what they're going through.

Fly safe.

[MCB]

RIP to the three. Very good friends with all of them. Condolences to their families.

Best Regards,

They all will be missed deeply by myself and others here. RIP

[Kelculater]

RIP to three of them

[stef]

My condolences to the family and friends of the departed, and to all staff and students of the Seneca aviation program.

[YYZatcboy]

RIP.

[HavaJava]

Very sad news and a terrible lose for all the families and everyone in the program.

The college is now confirming on their website that the accident happened during a "routine night flight". Sends shivers down my spine every time I think about it.

[bizjets101]

Dear Senecans,

It is with great sadness that I inform you of the death of two students and a flight instructor during a routine night flying exercise last night. At this time, names are not being released until family members can be notified.

Our deepest condolences go to the families, and we extend our sympathies to the students, faculty and staff of the aviation school who have lost friends and colleagues.

Out of respect, our flags will fly at half-mast and we will cancel Seneca Week activities scheduled for next week.

David Agnew
President

http://www.senecac.on.ca/school/aviation/index.html

[OceansEdge]

My deepest sympathies to all staff, students, and the families and friends of the victims of this tragedy.

[Jack Klumpus]

As we were approaching last night, 33.4 was asking another seneca to head over where their company plane fell off the radar. That was about 650pm. Sad news, RIP.

[. ._]

Man, that's tragic. I feel terrible for everyone that knew them. Going through a program like Seneca's, the students become a very tight-knit group. If that happened while I was at Sault College with my classmates and an instructor, I know I'd be devastated.

It's a sad, sad day.

My condolences to the students, staff, families and friends.

-istp