Aviation Accident Investigation Report for 2018 King Air Crash

Transportation Safety Board of Canada provides the official investigation report for the 2018 loss of control and collision with terrain involving a Beechcraft King Air B100 near Abbotsford Airport. The report details the circumstances of the accident, which occurred on 23 February 2018. The dataset was last updated on the open.canada.ca platform in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Extract causal factors and safety deficiencies from the narrative text for root cause analysis.
• Analyze the sequence of events described in the report to model accident progression timelines.
• Identify aircraft type (Beechcraft King Air B100), operator (Island Express Air Inc.), and location (Abbotsford Airport, British Columbia) for fleet or regional risk assessment.
• Parse investigation findings and safety recommendations to train NLP models for automated report classification.

Strengths

• Report is from the official Transportation Safety Board of Canada, an authoritative source for safety investigations.
• Provides a detailed, structured account of a specific accident with a known date (23 February 2018) and location.

Limitations

• Dataset consists of a single investigation report (A18P0031), representing a sample size of one incident.
• Data is presented in unstructured text formats (HTML, PDF), requiring significant processing for quantitative analysis.
• The report's findings are specific to one event, limiting generalizability without combining with other reports.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Official safety investigation conducted by the Transportation Safety Board.

Time Range

Incident date: 23 February 2018.

Freshness

Report details a 2018 event, but metadata indicates a platform update in March 2026.

Geography

Abbotsford Airport, British Columbia, Canada.