Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
03AUG2008 at 1522LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Flanagan Enterprises
Registration
 
N17SA
Location
 
Pitt Meadows
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
Pitt Meadows - Pitt Meadows
 
Construction number
 
LJ-164
Year of manufacture
 
1966
     
Crew on board
 
1
Pax on board
 
7
Crew fatalities
 
0
Pax fatalities
 
0
Other fatalities
 
0
Total fatalities
 
0

Circumstances
   
 
Four minutes after leaving Pitt Meadows airport with 7 skydivers, the pilot informed ATC that right engine failed. He decided to return to airport and was vectored to runway 08L approach. Later, left engine suffered problem and the pilot elected to carry an emergency landing in a cranberry field located 400 meters east of airport. Four of the passengers received serious injuries.


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