Wasaya Airways Flight 125
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan · Controlled flight into terrain
From Pickle Lake Airport (YPL) to Summer Beaver Airport (SUR)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 8 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 8
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
- Flight
- WSG125
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 208
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- C-FKAB
- Operator
- Wasaya Airways
- Onboard fatalities
- 8
- Route
- From Pickle Lake Airport (YPL)To Summer Beaver Airport (SUR)
Cause areas
- Not determined › Not determined
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
On September 11, 2003, a Cessna 208 Caravan operating as Wasaya Airways Flight 125 crashed while on a charter flight northwest of Nibinamik First Nation, Ontario, Canada, killing all eight occupants.
Crash
The aircraft took off from Summer Beaver Airport at 7:30 p.m. and was expected to arrive an hour later. The flight proceeded on a direct routing to destination at 3,500 feet above sea level under night visual flight conditions. While on approach, the aircraft joined the circuit on a downwind leg for a landing on Runway 17. It crashed at 8:30 p.m. When the aircraft did not land, personnel at Summer Beaver Airport contacted the Pickle Lake flight dispatch to inquire about the flight. The aircraft was declared missing at approximately 11:30 p.m. following an unsuccessful radio search by the Pickle Lake flight dispatch staff. Search and rescue personnel found the wreckage at 2:10 a.m. in a wooded area three nautical miles northwest of the airport. The crash site was accessible only by helicopter. Aerodrome fire fighting services would have been unable to reach the site. The aircraft was nearly consumed by a post-crash fire. All eight people on board were killed. The crash occurred on the same day that a privately owned Cessna aircraft en route to Thunder Bay crashed in Winnipeg, killing both occupants.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The cause of the accident was controlled flight into terrain with the circumstances being unknown. The aircraft did not carry flight recorders. Weather was doubted as the cause, but was not ruled out.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Wasaya Airways Flight 125
- Article
- Wasaya Airways Flight 125
- Revision
- 1364273420 · 2026-07-15 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q138011418
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Wasaya Airways Flight 125" (page 82141294, revision 1364273420)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.
- The article contradicts itself on the registration: its text gives C-FKAD, its infobox (used here) C-FKAB.