The Transportation Safety Board highlights the importance of designated landing areas in busy harbours as it releases a report on a crash between a float plane and a water taxi in Tofino, B.C.
The Transportation Safety Board highlights the importance of designated landing areas in harbours that are busy with marine and air traffic as it releases a report on a crash between a float plane and a water taxi in Tofino, B.C.
The board says neither the pilot nor the person operating the water taxi realized their routes would conflict until it was too late to take evasive action. “If busy harbours that accommodate both vessel and aircraft traffic do not have designated aircraft landing areas, means for aircraft to signal their presence, or vessel speed limits, there is an increased risk of collision as a result of vessels and aircraft operating in proximity at high speeds,” it says.
It says the plane was still in the process of slowing down and the pilot turned right to reduce the force of impact.
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