SW4, Sanikiluaq Nunavut Canada, 2012

SW4, Sanikiluaq Nunavut Canada, 2012

Summary

On 22 December 2012, the crew of a Swearingen SA227 attempting a landing, following an unstabilised non-precision approach at Sanikiluaq at night with questionable alternate availability in marginal weather conditions, ignored GPWS PULL UP Warnings, then failed in their attempt to transition into a low go around and the aircraft crashed into terrain beyond the runway. One occupant – an unrestrained infant – was killed and the aircraft was destroyed. The Investigation faulted crew performance, the operator and the regulator and reiterated that lap-held infants were vulnerable in crash impacts.

Description

On 22 December 2012, a Swearingen SA227-AC Metro lll (C-GFWX) being operated by Perimeter Aviation on a passenger charter flight from Winnipeg to Sanikiluaq as PAG993 crashed into terrain during an attempted late go-around in night VMC following an unstabilised tailwind non-precision approach. One of the nine occupants, an unsecured infant, was killed, one passenger and both pilots were seriously injured and the remaining five passengers sustained minor injuries. The aircraft was destroyed but there was no fire.

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