Sure would like to know what happened on this one. Yikes.

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Toronto Sun wrote:The single-engine de Havilland Canada Beaver owned by Seair Seaplanes of Richmond, B.C., crashed on takeoff from Lyall Harbour on Sunday afternoon.

Six passengers were trapped in the sinking plane and their bodies were found still in the plane by search divers. The pilot and one female passenger managed to escape.

SO very sad, my heart goes out to the families...........

i've got a whole ton of hours on beaver floats and the two things i've seen most when this type of thing occurs are: one - forgetting to switch the fuel selector valve to FULLEST TANK for takeoff. how many of us out there have not blown a fuel tank at least once in our flying careers?? this happened twice at our float base in northern sask. once, 6 people were killed. two. too much of a bank on takeoff with a heavy load - and this one was heavy. the DHC-2 is called the widow maker for this exact reason. maybe a third would be forgetting to push the mixture lever full forward (rich)for t/o. the engine will indeed cough while climbing out and thats all you need to ruin your day. ok, maybe a fourth.........forgetting to take carb heat off..........just my two cents worth.............

That was a sad deal. It's too bad that more of them couldn't get out. I used to be concerned about getting people out of the back in an overturn situation myself. It would be sad to hear that they were all conscious post-impact and simply drowned because the center seat pax got disoriented and didn't exit. It would be really challenging for the three on the rear sling to get out over the three in the center.
Roger on the tank pop too Luke. I used to try to start watching the fuel pressure guage when the fuel guage quit bobbing but it seemed like I'd miss one every few hundred hours. Wakes up the passengers though. I remember one time over Smith Sound descending out of 5000 or so going to Rivers Inlet I'd had my hand on the selector waiting for it and attention deficit disorder got me after about four minutes. Got looking at something and right then of course she popped! I thought this poor lady up front with me was gonna jump through the windshield!
Nice shot of the turbine Beaver too.

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What an awful story.

I've long thought about taking one of those underwater egress training courses, even though I rarely fly over large bodies of water. You just never know. Maybe we could do some sort of BCP group get-together at one of the egress training sites sometime?