How This Drunk Captain Ripped His Plane Apart | Mystery In Canada

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This is the story of carson air flight 66. Carson air flight 66 is one of the many flights in canada that criss-cross the country bringing needed supplies to the smaller communities spread across the country. More often than not these flights stop in multiple cities bringing in goods and cargo from the bigger cities to the smaller ones. Look at the stops of carson air flight 66, it started out in vancouver and it was headed to fort st john, with stops at prince george and dawson creek. On monday the 15th of august 2015, the pilots of flight 66 got to vancouver international airport after a weekend of not flying. The first officer was the one who was first in and he started prepping the plane for the days flights, the captain followed suit not long after. The captain and first officer then finished loading the cargo for the flights and then started up the engines on the swearingen SA226. After a quick taxi the airplane was at the runway at vacouver. After the takeoff run was started the plane took off about 2800 to 3000 feet down the runway. Once in the air flight 66 was in contact with flight was in contact with departure. Once in the air the flight was vectored to the north and slowly it was cleared upto its cruising altitude of 20000 feet. On the controllers screen flight 66 began the climb from 7500 feet, when it was passing through 8700 feet the plane disappeared from the radar screens at vancouver. The plane had only been in the air for about 7 minutes and then it went off line with no distress call no nothing. Flight 66 had been absolutely normal until it disappeared, the plane had been climbing normally at 1500 feet per minute, and the speed was about 180 knots. Nothing out of the ordinary for a sa226 flying this route and then it disappeared. The last few radar returns had caught the final moments of flight 66, the sweringen had gone into an abrupt steep descent and it showed no signs of leveling out. The wreck of the plane was found in a dberis field that was 1400 feet by 1000 feet on a mountain, they noticed that the lighter less massive components of the wreck was situated at the start of the debris field and the more massive parts were further down the debris field. This meant that the plane had started to break up in the air before it hit the ground and the reason for that was aerodynamic stresses. They calculated that the plane started diving towards the ground at 30000 feet per minute. This was more than enough force to rip the swearingen to shreds before they even hit the ground. Whats even more interesting is that the damage to the plane was symmetrical, this was a symptom of high energy rotational damage. Then in the remains of the cockpit the investigators found something interesting, the trim switches, the trim system was commanding maximum nose down trim at the moment of impact. For those of you that dont know trim is used to keep the plane level, if you trim the plane nose up then the plane will have a natural tendency to nose up even if you dont touch the controls and likewise if you trim the plane nose down the plane will nose down. This was very strange why would a plane that was in a dive have its nose be trimmed down as well? That would be like a driver stepping on the gas to stop the car, in a situation like this you expect to see the nose in a nose up position. Since the plane was going to be in cold conditions the investigators looked at the deicing system of the plane, if something had blocked the deicing system then the instruments could have given the pilots wrong information that could have caused them to inadvertently point the plane down. This has happened before. But looking at carson air procedresthye found out that the captain would have had to turn on the deicing system and check that it was on multiple times. The chances of them taking off without their deicing system on was very very slim. But the radar return of the plane poked a few holes in that theory, the plane nose dived in a very level way, that is the wings were level, this would have exerted negative Gs on the pilots in such a way that they would have known exactly what was happening to the plane that they were