Image of the type, in Canadian police service. It's a float plane, not a seaplane. A seaplane puts its fuselage in the water.
The PBY5-A is a seaplane:
Posted on 07/20/2016 11:42:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Cessna 208B, operated by Joy Air General Air, was carrying two crew members and eight invited guests, mostly government workers and local journalists, according to local media.
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The seaplane took off from Jinshan in suburban Shanghai and was bound for the Zhoushan islands, about 75 kilometers (47 miles) to the south.
The route is designed for tourists and sightseers who want to escape to the islands from sprawling Shanghai. Local journalists were invited to tour the seaplane before its takeoff, and some of them boarded the aircraft for the subsequent flight along with local officials. Wednesday's flight appeared to have been a media tour to help promote the airline's new coastal service.
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https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HS.217093512581&w=299&h=199&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0&r=0
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Isn’t this the same type of plane as Obama’s birth certificate related crash in Hawaii?
Bummer. What a shame.
As an aside, isn’t the Cessna 208B what Loretta Fuddy was on?
Some of the pics look like it to me.
Image of the type, in Canadian police service. It's a float plane, not a seaplane. A seaplane puts its fuselage in the water.
The PBY5-A is a seaplane:
My brother and I made a Revell model of one many many many years ago.
I always heard that a Catalina or a Boeing Clipper were flying boats, and that a plane with floats was either a seaplane or a float plane.
Anyway, a tragic loss of life in that Cessna. Landing either type is extremely tricky.
Have been in a lot of float planes in AK, but since a kid, I was always a PBY fan.
A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.[1] Seaplanes that can also take off and land on airfields are in a subclass called amphibian aircraft. Seaplanes and amphibians are usually divided into two categories based on their technological characteristics: floatplanes and flying boats; the latter are generally far larger and can carry far more. These aircraft were sometimes called hydroplanes,[2] but currently, this term applies instead to motor-powered watercraft that use the technique of hydrodynamic lift to levitate their main hull above the water when running at speed.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaplane
Seems obvious the pilot dug those floats in pretty badly, the way they are bent backwards.
Not news - Chinese-made crap breaks all the time.
Cessnas aren’t built in China. I think they’re made in Kansas.
“eight invited guests, mostly government workers and local journalists”
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Reminds me the joke involving a bus, lawyers and a cliff.
“Wednesday’s flight appeared to have been a media tour to help promote the airline’s new coastal service”
Sum Ting Wong
Cessnas aren’t built in China. I think they’re made in Kansas.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if China did make ‘em, too. They make just about everything, badly.
First time I ever saw a Cessna was on Sky King’s Songbird, back in the day.
[PBY5-A? Wasn’t it called The Catalina flying boat?]
Yes, I believe the British called it the Catalina.
I think weight and balance might have been an issue. 10 souls on floats, I thought the rear seats were jump seats not rated for adults, then add in the floats.
“Out of the blue of the western sky...”
One of the many reasons I moved to the west when I turned 21. Great show!
Guest pilot Wong Wei ...
If you remember Sky King, we’re both older than dirt. 8^)
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