Summit DH8A at Thunder Bay on Dec 11th 2022, engine shut down in flight

Last Update: December 15, 2022 / 19:44:15 GMT/Zulu time

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Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 11, 2022

Classification
Incident

Airline
Summit Air

Flight number
BF-1720

Aircraft Registration
C-GWRI

ICAO Type Designator
DH8A

A Summit Air de Havilland Dash 8-100, registration C-GWRI performing flight BF-1720 from Thunder Bay,ON to Fort Hope,ON (Canada) with 24 passengers and 3 crew, was climbing out of Thunder Bay when the left hand propeller (engine PW121) began to overspeed. The crew worked the related checklist, shut the engine down and returned to Thunder Bay for a safe landing.
Incident Facts

Date of incident
Dec 11, 2022

Classification
Incident

Airline
Summit Air

Flight number
BF-1720

Aircraft Registration
C-GWRI

ICAO Type Designator
DH8A

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