Air Tindi Flight 200
Cessna 208B Grand Carvan · Controlled flight into terrain caused by pilot high on cannabis and low visibility
From Yellowknife International Airport (YZF) to Lutselk'e Airport (YSG)
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC12WA001
- 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
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 4
- Survivors
- 2
- 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
- 2
- 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
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cessna 208B Grand Carvan
- Flight
- 8T200
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 208
- Category
- Airplane
- 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-GATV
- Operator
- Air Tindi
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Yellowknife International Airport (YZF)To Lutselk'e Airport (YSG)
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Unknown
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Personnel issues › Physical
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Łutselk'e, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On October 4, 2011, a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan operating as Air Tindi Flight 200 crashed while on a passenger flight west of Lutselk'e Airport in Łutselk'e, Northwest Territories, killing the pilot and a passenger, as well as seriously injuring two others.
Crash
The aircraft departed Yellowknife Airport at 11:03 on a passenger flight to Lutselk'e Airport. The aircraft was expected to arrive at 11:45. When it did not arrive, a search and rescue operation was launched. The emergency locator transmitter was not used but was functional. It was flying at low level so he could maintain visual contact with the ground. The aircraft crashed at high speed into the top of a hill while being controlled by the pilot 26 nautical miles west of the airport. The impact caused the plane to crash inverted and one of the wings to slice through the cabin, making the crash worst. Pieces of debris were scattered 600 feet from the crash site. The pilot and 54-year-old passenger Tim Harris were killed while two other passengers, identified as Bernice Marlowe and Sheldon Catholique, survived and were transported by a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter medevac flight to the Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife with serious injuries. The bodies of the deceased were sent to Edmonton for post-mortems.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada recovered engine and flight instruments from the crash site and sent them to labs in Ottawa, Ontario. They made an animation of the crash as well. The preliminary report was released a year later. The crash was caused by the pilot flying at low altitude during low visibility, causing him to be unable to avoid terrain, and that a toxicology report revealed that the pilot was high on cannabinoids, causing impairment in performance and decision-making. The weather on the day of the crash was rainy and overcast with poor visibility.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Air Tindi Flight 200” (revision 1364275403, retrieved 2026-09-18) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out. Read the article
NTSB narrative
On October 4, 2011, about 1730 coordinated universal time, a Cessna 208B airplane registered to Air Tindi, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada sustained substantial when it impacted tree-covered terrain under unknown circumstances near Utsigi Point, Northwest Territories, Canada. Instrument meteorological conditions were reported in the area at the time of the accident. Of the four occupants on board, the pilot and one passenger were killed, and two passengers sustained serious injuries. The flight originated from Yellowknife, and it was en route to Lutselk'e, Northwest Territories, Canada.
The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB). This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained from the TSB. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Transportation Safety Board of Canada 200 Promenade du Portage Place du Centre, 4th Floor Hull, Quebec K1A 1K8 Canada
Tel.: (1) 819-994-4252 (1) 819-997-7887 (24 hour) E-mail: airops@tsb.gc.ca Fax: (1) 819-953-9586 Website: http://www.tsb.gc.ca
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Wikipedia article: Air Tindi Flight 200
- Article
- Air Tindi Flight 200
- Revision
- 1364275403 · 2026-07-15 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q127226124
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record ANC12WA001
- Event ID
- 20111005X24423
- Case number
- ANC12WA001
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Air Tindi Flight 200" (page 82447964, revision 1364275403); merged with NTSB case ANC12WA001 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record ANC12WA001
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Air Tindi Flight 200" and NTSB case ANC12WA001, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.