Originally Posted by
Yankee Whisky
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I seem to remember the Bearskin crash at Mirabel airport where there was a gear failure involved. See link above.........
I further remember that these aircraft when passing over my house on climb out had very noisy props and, according to one pilot I knew, it was a hot landing airplane.
Propair, not Bearskin.
A totally different accident from the one involved in this long topic.
Weather was close to minimums but still within limits. They lost control because they....Lost a wing.
They had a fire who started in the wheel well just after taking off rwy 24L In Dorval. Fire extended to the engine, they shut it down.
Polemic at the time was their choice of runway for divertion in Mirabel since another one may have cut down their air time. This was proved wrong in the accident report, rwy 24 at CYMX was a good choice considering all the factors involved.
Never the less, fire did its job, eat up a spar and their left wing broke up on short final.