Blue Water Aviation Services accident at Family Lake
De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Turbine Otter · The Blue Water Aviation Services accident at Family Lake occurred on 26 October 2019
From Bissett Water Aerodrome, Manitoba, Canada to Family Lake, Manitoba, Canada
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
- 3 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- Charter & commuter
De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Turbine Otter
- Aircraft type
- de Havilland DHC-3
- 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-GBTU
- Operator
- Blue Water Aviation Services
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From Bissett Water Aerodrome, Manitoba, CanadaTo Family Lake, Manitoba, Canada
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft structures
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
The Blue Water Aviation Services accident at Family Lake occurred on 26 October 2019. On a charter flight from Bissett Water Aerodrome to Family Lake within the Canadian province of Manitoba, a float-equipped De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Turbine Otter of Blue Water Aviation Services crashed. All three occupants were killed in the accident.
Sequence of the accident
When the aircraft was on final approach to Family Lake, the right wing suddenly tore off the fuselage. The aircraft went out of control and crashed into the lake. All three occupants were killed.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada took over the investigation into the cause of the crash. The investigators determined that a fatigue fracture had occurred on the aircraft at the bolt hole bore in the area of the upper right wing strut. The failure of this assembly had led to a structural overload of the wing structure and finally to the separation of the wing.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall der Blue Water Aviation Services am Family Lake” (revision 268115455, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall der Blue Water Aviation Services am Family Lake
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 268115455 · 2026-06-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q110219409
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall der Blue Water Aviation Services am Family Lake" (page 12015186, revision 268115455), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A floatplane of a small operator on a charter flight to a remote lake: a charter and bush flight. The article: "On a charter flight from Bissett Water Aerodrome to Family Lake within the Canadian province of Manitoba, a float-equipped De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Turbine Otter of Blue Water Aviation Services crashed."
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.