Beech Bonanza Down - Seneca College

[teacher]

My sympathies to all involved

[niss]

Horrible news.

My condolences to all.

[Rotten Apple #1]

Horrible, horrible news. My heart goes out to those grieving.

[jump154]

RIP. Terrible news, you will be missed. Condolences to the families and friends. Young lives, just starting out. Seneca guys - anything you need you know where to find me, we lost a common friend.

[ng78]

RIP to the deceased. My heart goes out to my friends at Seneca. Stay safe and take care of eachother.

[bandaid]

To all those involved, to family, friends, thier co-workers and students, and the college, our families deepest sympathies.

[Peter Gibbons]

My heart and prayers go to all the families, and friends of those lost to this terrible tragedy. I hope and pray that those lost will find eternal peace and grace with God.

[Sulako]

Awful news, and a terrible loss.

[teacher]

I didn't post any off the pics in the article as there is a photo of the wreckage so for those not wanting to see it avoid the link. Again RIP and my sincere condolences to family, friends, staff and students at Seneca College.

3 dead in 'devastating' aircraft crash near Toronto

A single-engine beech aircraft, owned by Seneca College, crashed killing all three people on board. The names of the victims are not being released. Police are having trouble investigating the crash scene because of the remote location.

Date: Fri. Nov. 19 2010 7:59 AM ET

A college training plane plummeted from the sky northeast of Toronto, Thursday evening, killing two students and a flight instructor in a crash officers found difficult to talk about.

"It is just devastating," Durham Regional Police Insp. Jamie Grant told reporters at the scene. "It is just unbelievable how much carnage there is there. It is a sad sight. It is sad to see that three young people have lost their lives, in this tragic accident."

Investigators continue to probe the cause of the crash, in which a single-engine, four-seat Beech 33 aircraft disappeared off the radar screen at Toronto's Pearson International Airport.

The plane was returning to Buttonville Airport when it lost contact with air control crews.

Police and emergency crews descended on the scene Thursday night, after a search helicopter discovered the crash site at about 7 p.m.

Search crews found the wreckage scattered across a field near Highway 407 in north Pickering. Later, an air ambulance crew found that three people had died in the crash.

The aircraft was from Toronto's Seneca College, which has an aviation operations course.

On Friday, the college's president confirmed the grim news.

"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," David Agnew wrote in a letter posted to Seneca College's website.

"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."

The school's flags were to be flown at half-staff on Friday, and a number of campus activities scheduled for next week have been cancelled.

The names of the deceased have not been released, but officers described all three – two men and one women – as young.

The Transportation Safety Board is looking into what caused the fatal crash.

Seneca College has five Beech 33 aircrafts registered, according to the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register.

The plane believed to be involved in the crash made an emergency landing on a U.S. interstate in September, 2008 after suffering an engine failure.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20 ... sh-101119/

[FlyHigh13]

Condolences to family and friends. This is very sad news.

[Brown Bear]

Very sad news, indeed. My thoughts are with everybody at Seneca, family and friends of the three involved.
This is, to say the least, a very unusual incident. Seneca has always had an excellent reputation as a training facility. I know we will be watching this very closely, to determine cause, and to prevent a reoccurrence in any way.
Guys and girls, be careful out there.

[Brize]

My sincere sadness is felt for the young lives lost and of those who have to grieve the loss of their loved ones in such a way. These were young, smart and motivated individuals who chased their dreams and contributed every day to the world we live in. Their families and friends knew them for even more than that. Rest in peace.

Flying airplanes as a career is and always will be inherently dangerous.

[Doc]

I was deeply saddened by this devastating news. I was very hopeful when the early reports were coming in, but upon hearing that fatalities were involved my thoughts turned to the school mates, families and friends of those involved. Words cannot begin to express the loss to the aviation community, of lives so young.
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[volare]

My deepest condolences to the family and friends of the lost, my thoughts and prayers are with you.

[PunkStarStudios]

I didn't know the students, but I did know the instructor Aziz.
We worked together on a few projects and he'd been to my house a few times.

He had an exceptional reputation as both an instructor and a pilot among his peers here in the GTA.

He is going to be deeply missed.

[bizjets101]

Seneca College mourns the loss of two students and flight instructor

November 19, 2010 - Plans are underway for a private memorial for the two Seneca students and their flight instructor who perished in a crash just north of Pickering last night.

At the request of the families of the deceased, Seneca is now releasing their names.

Flight instructor, 26-year-old Azizullah Yoosufani and two third-year students, 20-year-old Cynthia Hoi-Mei Tsang and 20-year old Lloyd Myles Cripps were returning to Buttonville airport from a routine flight training exercise when, around 7 p.m., Pearson International Airport notified Durham Regional Police they lost the plane on radar.

A police helicopter searched the area and located the downed plane’s wreckage in a farmer’s field near Whitevale Road, south of Highway 407 in north Pickering. All three were pronounced dead at the scene.

“Our community of students, staff, friends and colleagues are coming together in the face of this terrible tragedy’” says David Agnew, President Seneca College. “We ask that with the release of the names of the deceased, the privacy of the grieving families be respected.”

“All three will be profoundly missed and each displayed the very best qualities of a Seneca student. They were passionate about their chosen field, committed to excellence and known to be kind, caring individuals,” says Laurel Schollen, Dean Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology.

Azizullah Yoosufani graduated with honours from the flight degree program in 2008. He was an Air Canada Jazz Award Winner and also won the Global Aerospace Underwriting Managers Award, Sheryl Lee Memorial Award and the Ted Brown Memorial Bursary. He was on the President’s Honour List. He completed his instructor rating upon graduation and began working with Seneca in August 2008. He had just completed his upgrade to a Class 1 instructor. He was respected by faculty and his peers, not only for his skill as an instructor, but for the person he was. He was an upstanding citizen and exemplified professionalism.

“He was a great role model for other students. He had a very strong work ethic; he was kind and thoughtful. “He was a decent person with the full meaning of the word,” said Adel Labib, a Professor at Seneca’s School of Aviation and Flight Technology.

Cynthia Tsang was a class leader. She was well liked and was an enthusiastic and dedicated student and made the President’s Honour List. She had passed her commercial pilot written exam and flight test.

“Cynthia was one of the most polite students I ever taught at Seneca, and she had such great spirit,”
said Labib.

Lloyd Cripps was a very strong student working toward his instructor’s rating. Lloyd had also passed his commercial pilot written exam and flight test. He was a Canadian and British citizen and was looking forward to flying in Europe after graduation.

“He was an energetic and fun-loving person, a dedicated student and an all around great person,” said Labib.

For more information contact:
Seneca College Media Relations
416-491-5050 x 7018

http://www.senecac.on.ca/media/news/201 ... tml?page=1

[Lost Lake]

My condolences to all involved. I was truly amazed at the video on CTV. It looks like it flew/fell straight into the ground. Terrible.

[mcrit]

Sad, sad news. My thoughts are with the friends and familes.

[PunkStarStudios]

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.

C-GSCZ Sept 13-08 Valcorut Canton, Quebec.jpg

C-GSCZ USA.jpg

C-GSCZ Chris Coates.jpg

Just to clarify.
The electric trim those planes at Seneca have all been disabled.

[howard40]

That Bonanza went in steep and fast, from the look of the airborne video of the crash site.What on earth would make a beech 33 with three pilots in it do that?.What a shame.Condolences to the families and friends of all involved.

[into the blue]

Will not speculate; however, immediately after I heard about the crash and saw the photos, this very similar tragic occurence came to mind:
http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_i ... 1708&key=1

[gustind]

As a long time reader of the forums I understand some of the mixed feelings some may have towards the college and program itself. Thank you everyone for putting those thoughts aside and offering your condolences, thoughts and prayers in this matter. This is the first real aviation related accident for most of the students at Seneca College and knowing that you all share our feelings in this matter is comforting as we mourn the loss of our close friends.

Stay Safe,

[costermonger]

My thoughts are with the families and friends of those involved. This has been on my mind constantly since last night, I can't even imagine what those close to the victims must be going through.

@intotheblue

That one came to my mind as well. The kind of accident that I am not ashamed to say scares the **** out of me.

[hairdo]

My condolences to the friends and family. RIP

[ScurvyDog]

I have been through a situation that a friend and family member was killed in a plane crash a number of years ago. The memory never disappears. My thoughts are with the friends and families of those students and instructor.

After the accident I quit flying for a number of years but really missed it. I have now been back in the cockpit for the past 3.5 years. Every accident I read about or see on the news does bring back very strong memories but it also reminds me to be the safest pilot possible and not take any unnecessary risks in my flying.

Again my condolences to the friends and families...