Kakabeka Falls fatality

[AEROMONKEY]

http://tbnewswatch.com/News/392079/Emer ... ls_Airport

[JasonE]

Ick.

[Bede]

I'm a member of the flying club and the volunteer fire department out here. Not a good day in paradise...

[ActionAxson]

I'm a member of the flying club and the volunteer fire department out here. Not a good day in paradise...

Seriously! I was out there a week ago, such a nice sense of community with all the owners. Hard to believe such a tragedy could take place there.

[rigpiggy]

Keep your head up, and think that they are all trying to kill you, you'll live longer that way

[bobm]

Do you have ANY idea how many passengers have been victims as the result of walking forward on a float into a prop. Not the first and not the last. A good briefing by the pilot perhaps might have prevented this.

Darwin award? I don't think so. Could happen to any "ill informed" passenger wanting to help dock the plane. Mind you, I don't know the details.

[ActionAxson]

1 Month Vacation.

[lownslow]

My sincerest condolences to anyone who knew the poor victim. As a fan of little airplanes and the more relaxed aerodromes myself, this scenario is probably my greatest fear. While most of you reading this probably have a good sense of where the dangers are around an airplane, remember that your passengers (and their friends and family milling around taking pictures) do not.

This is not a Darwin Award, not something deserved, just a terrible, terrible accident.

[phillyfan]

"A brief moment of distraction does not make a person stupid."

Oh I don't know about that. There are dozens of threads on here where people pile on a pilot for forgetting the landing gear?

[Mick G]

1 month vacation for being an insensitive jackass. Or don't come back, whatever.

- Sulako

[PilotDAR]

Several posts in this thread should have remained only in the poster's "inside voice". They just don't fit in a mature discussion.

I've had a few scary occasions when a person did something very unexpected/contrary to my briefing, and I wished I could instantly stop a propeller. Happily, never an injury, but fear none the less.

For those who have not had the highly unpleasant experience, I can assure you that after you have picked up parts of a fatally injured person, it really does take away any sense of joking about it, or making any "darwin" remarks about the victim - it's simply sad all the way around.

[switchflicker]

Well said

[180]

A tragic accident. Condolences to all involved.

Was this a commercial or private machine?

[10milefinal]

It was a 150 on floats that was ramping when it happened.

[pelmet]

C-GGNE, a privately registered float equipped Cessna 150J, was attempting a local flight from Kakabeka Falls, ON (CKG8) with the pilot and one passenger on board. Due to poor aircraft performance, the pilot aborted the second take-off run and taxied back to the water ramp. During the shoring process of the aircraft, the passenger exited the right side of the aircraft and was struck by the rotating propeller. The passenger received fatal injuries. EMS and Ontario Provincial Police attended the scene.

[PilotDAR]

Thread drift.... C-GGNE - 'brings back memories... It was one of two 150's rebuilt by Gar Aspden, in Pottageville, Ontario in the mid 1970's. I was generously flown in this, and more so, in it's sister rebuild, C-GGND (also a 150), over several years. GGNE was purchased by a nice older fellow named Percy, who delighted in just flying it around locally. GGND, and to a lesser degree GGNE were formative for me as a pilot. It's sad to hear that a very old friend was involved in an accident....