Aviation Accident Investigation Report for Bella Bella Collision

One detailed investigation report documents the collision with terrain of a Grumman G-21A aircraft operated by Wilderness Seaplanes Ltd. near Bella Bella Airport, British Columbia, on 18 December 2023. The report is published by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Extract causal factors like 'collision with terrain' and 'aircraft type' for root cause analysis of seaplane accidents.
• Analyze the narrative for keywords such as 'Campbell Island' and '0.5 NM SE' to map high-risk geographic areas for aviation.
• Process the structured text fields like 'operator', 'location', and 'date' to build a timeline of safety incidents for trend modeling.

Strengths

• Report provides a complete, official narrative of a single significant accident from a national safety board.
• Data includes precise location (0.5 NM SE of CBBC), date, aircraft model, and operator details.

Limitations

• Dataset consists of a single report, offering no statistical power for analysis.
• Data is unstructured HTML text, requiring significant parsing to extract structured features.
• Limited temporal scope to one incident in December 2023.

Provenance

Source

Transportation Safety Board of Canada

Collection Method

Official safety investigation report.

Time Range

18 December 2023

Freshness

Report was last updated on 5 March 2026.

Geography

Bella Bella (Campbell Island) Airport, British Columbia, Canada