Aviation Accident Investigation Report for Amateur-Built Floatplane

A single official investigation report details the in-flight separation of the left wing from a privately registered, amateur-built Wag-Aero Sportsman 2+2 floatplane. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada produced this report concerning an incident near Rivière Bonnard Aerodrome, Quebec, on 23 September 2022. The report is available in HTML format and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze narrative descriptions of the 'in-flight separation' event to identify common failure patterns in amateur-built aircraft.
• Extract named entities like aircraft model ('Wag-Aero Sportsman 2+2'), registration ('C-FFDA'), and location ('Rivière Bonnard Aerodrome, Quebec') for building incident catalogs.
• Study the investigation's findings text to train models for automated preliminary cause classification in aviation safety reports.

Strengths

• Report is authored by the official national transportation safety investigation authority, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
• Provides a detailed, official account of a specific aviation accident with precise date (23 September 2022) and location (13 NM WSW of Rivière Bonnard Aerodrome, Quebec).
• Data was updated in March 2026, indicating potential maintenance or correction of the record.

Limitations

• Dataset consists of a single investigation report (one row), offering no statistical breadth for analysis.
• Lacks structured, machine-readable columns (e.g., aircraft type, causes, weather) as data is presented in narrative HTML text.
• Geographic scope is limited to one specific incident in Quebec, Canada.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Official safety investigation conducted by the national transportation safety board.

Time Range

Incident date: 23 September 2022.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-08.

Geography

Near Rivière Bonnard Aerodrome, Quebec, Canada (13 NM WSW).