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[url=http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/nort ... -1.3346524]http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/nort ... -1.3346524[/url]
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Buffalo Airways, of TV's Ice Pilots NWT, has licence suspended
Transport Canada has grounded the operations of Buffalo Airways, the popular northern airline chronicled over six seasons on TV's [i]Ice Pilots NWT, [/i]due to safety compliance issues.
In a release Tuesday, the regulator said it is suspending the airline's air operator certificate due to its "poor safety record."
The suspension took effect Monday at 11:59 p.m.
  [img alt=Mikey McBryan width=100]http://i.cbc.ca/1.3346528.1449035474%21 ... cbryan.jpg[/img] Mikey McBryan, general manager of N.W.T.'s Buffalo Airways, was among the family and staff featured on the reality TV show Ice Pilots NWT. (CBC)
  "The department will not allow Buffalo Airways to resume its commercial air service until it proves it can keep its operations consistently compliant with aviation safety regulations," the release stated.
Transport Canada says it consulted the airline in the lead-up to the suspension.
A history of incidents The suspension follows a history of incidents.
In August 2013, a Buffalo Airways DC-3 made a hard landing at the Yellowknife airport 30 seconds after takeoff, and right after its right engine burst into flames. All 24 people on board were fine, a fact some attributed to a "damn good pilot."
Four months later, a Buffalo Airways C-46 plane, bound to pick up freight in Hay River, N.W.T., [url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/buf ... -1.2453650]caught fire after it blew an engine[/url] while taxiing down the runway at the Yellowknife airport.
Last summer, the company was [url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/buf ... -1.2744259]fined after pleading guilty to three violations[/url] of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act. The airline was charged with using too-large tanks to haul diesel fuel to two remote exploration camps in 2012, with improper labelling and missing paperwork.
Company official Rod McBryan said Buffalo had been using the tanks for 35 years.
This October, a cargo plane belonging to Buffalo Airways [url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/buf ... -1.3244335]crash landed outside of Deline, N.W.T[/url].
Earlier this year, the TSB released its report into the 2013 hard landing in Yellowknife.
'Adversarial relationship' The report cited engine failure and an overloaded plane, as well as larger concerns about the airline's safety practices.
  [img alt=Buffalo Airways landing width=100]http://i.cbc.ca/1.3346530.1449035663%21 ... anding.jpg[/img] In October, a cargo plane belonging to Buffalo Airways crash landed outside of Deline, N.W.T. (submitted)
  The board wrote: "… the organizational culture at Buffalo Airways was not supportive of a system that required the organization to take a proactive role in identifying hazards and reducing risks.
"The company's response to deficiencies identified during [Transport Canada] surveillance activities demonstrated an adversarial relationship between the company and the regulator."
The History Channel aired the last episode of[i] Ice Pilots NWT[/i], which depicted the day-to-day operations of Buffalo Airways, in December 2014.
The show helped the airline based in Hay River, N.W.T., garner a cult following.

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How many people has Buffalo injured or killed over the many decdaes they have flown in some of the most demanding conditions in the world?

That is a great question Chuck, how many survivors have they buried over the years?

[quote][font=verdana][size=x-small]an adversarial relationship between the company and the regulator[/size][/font][/quote]

What the hell does that have to do
with anything?

TC's position is that if they don't like
somebody, they must be BAD PEOPLE
and thus BAD PILOTS?

How incredibly childish and unprofessional.

TC hates my (and Chuck's) guts, and
our safety record is FAR better than theirs!

Would you ever consider that your issues with Transport and Buffalo's issues with Transport are very different beasts?

[quote][font=verdana]your issues with Transport and Buffalo's issues with Transport are very different beasts?[/font][/quote]

It's possible that there really is a Santa Claus
and an Easter Bunny, and that God created the
earth 6,000 years ago.

But overwhelming evidence points otherwise.


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I took Mikey flying - low-altitude four Pitts
formation.  He said it was the scariest thing
he had ever done in an airplane.

A friend of mine at the TSB once calculated
that if Air Canada had the same accident rate
as Transport, they would write off an airframe
every 1.5 months.

I am not making this up.

Transport publicly attacking someone because
they don't like them, and criticizing their safety
record is both incredibly childish and unprofessional,
and at the same time hilarious.

You honestly think that if the "hot stick" inspector
pilots at TC replaced Buffalo's pilots, they would
have a better safety record?!

TC would write off all the airplanes the first day.

They can't even fly a tailwheel aircraft!

TC's "hot stick" in Ontario Region can't even land
a Luscombe.  Ask me how I know this.

If they handle this properly and get slightly more progressive I can see no reason why that they can sort TC out and be back flying. The big question will be if Joe is interested in doing it. I hope so and with some minor fleet adjustments the could truck on for a very long time.

Comon colonel,,


The new "hot stick" TCCA guy on the "left" coast is soo good, he split s recovers from inverted flight in twins!  Man I hope Im that good some day :)

I see he posted on Pprune today so he reads these forums.


It is sure comforting to know there is a job for everyone out there.


In a perfect world he would paid by the taxpayers to never go near anyone in aviation again and just stay home and stay out of airplanes.

[quote author=Chuck Ellsworth link=topic=1239.msg4690#msg4690 date=1449192020]
I see he posted on Pprune today so he reads these forums.
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Where? Searching Pprune, cant find...