Northern Thunderbird Air Flight 204
Unknown and Beechcraft King Air · Engine failure
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
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 9
- 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
- 5
- 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
Aircraft 1 · Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Northern Thunderbird Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia, CanadaTo Kelowna International Airport, British Columbia, Canada
Aircraft 2 · Beechcraft King Air
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft KING AIR
- 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
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Vancouver International Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
Northern Thunderbird Air Flight 204 was a domestic charter flight from Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia, to Kelowna International Airport, British Columbia. On 27 October 2011, the Beechcraft King Air 100 operating the route diverted back to Vancouver International Airport after an unsecured engine oil pressure cap caused a leak. On returning to the airport, the aircraft banked to the left and crashed into a fence.
The aircraft involved was a Beechcraft King Air 100 with serial number B-36, registered C-GXRX.
After an uneventful take-off, minutes later the crew detected the oil pressure indicator and informed the passengers. Immediately afterwards, the crew requested a diversion back to Vancouver International Airport. The captain decided to reduce the aircraft's speed to about 95-105 knots while approaching the runway, which caused it to bank and crash into a fence. The Beechcraft King Air caught fire before coming to a complete stop.
Of the 9 passengers on board, 5 suffered injuries, while captain Luc Fortin died. First officer Matt Robic survived the accident, but died from his burns just 3 weeks later.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Vuelo 204 de Northern Thunderbird Air” (revision 172404990, 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
Spanish Wikipedia article: Vuelo 204 de Northern Thunderbird Air
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 172404990 · 2026-03-08 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q138005262
- 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
- es Wikipedia article "Vuelo 204 de Northern Thunderbird Air" (page 11445621, revision 172404990), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site names (OurAirports, exact name)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: total_fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.