Porter Airlines In-flight Electrical Arcing Investigation Report

An official safety investigation report details an in-flight electrical arcing incident involving a Porter Airlines Bombardier DHC-8-402 aircraft. The report was produced by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and concerns an event that occurred on 10 March 2018 near Fredericton, New Brunswick. It is a single, detailed case study published in HTML format.

Use Cases

• Extract narrative details of the 'in-flight electrical arcing' event for causal factor modeling.
• Analyze the report text for mentions of specific components like 'Bombardier DHC-8-402' or 'C-GLQG' to identify common failure points.
• Parse location data ('Fredericton, New Brunswick, 45 nm SW') and date ('10 March 2018') for spatiotemporal analysis of aviation incidents.
• Identify operational context and response procedures described in the report text for training simulator scenario development.

Strengths

• Report is authored by the authoritative national Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
• Provides a precise incident date (10 March 2018) and location (45 nm SW of Fredericton).
• Includes specific identifiers for the airline (Porter Airlines Inc.) and aircraft (Bombardier DHC-8-402, C-GLQG).

Limitations

• Dataset consists of a single incident report, offering no statistical sample size for broader analysis.
• Data is presented as unstructured HTML text, requiring significant NLP processing for structured analysis.
• The report is from 2018, and findings may not reflect current aircraft systems or procedures.

Provenance

Source

Transportation Safety Board of Canada (Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada).

Collection Method

Official safety investigation following a reported incident.

Time Range

Incident date: 10 March 2018.

Freshness

The record was last updated on the platform on 2026-03-05, though the incident date is 2018.

Geography

Location: 45 nautical miles southwest of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.