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:
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HS.217076215421&w=299&h=185&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0&r=0
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HS.217093512581&w=299&h=199&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0&r=0
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HS.285812991011&w=300&h=200&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0&r=0
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:
Not news - Chinese-made crap breaks all the time.
“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
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.
Guest pilot Wong Wei ...
Somesing Went Wong.
The only seaplane I’ve ever been on was in early July, of 1981, when my brother, who was a surveyor based in Juneau, Alaska, generously flew me up there for a world-class fishing trip with my Dad and two friends. We were flying to Hasselborg lake, on Admiralty island, in the Tongass National Forest, to fish for Dolly Varden, Rainbow, and Cutthroat Trout, out of a five dollar a day Forest Service cabin, that was equipped very sparsely. We took a radial-engined Twin Beech 18 on floats with the five of us, the pilot, all of our fishing gear and supplies, our necessary firearms, two outboard boat engines, cases of Rainier Beer, and five cases of Stroh’s Beer from Detroit that I lugged through Detroit Metro Airport in a duffel bag. And, on the way to Seattle, Red Skelton was a short-hop passenger to Milwaukee. I’m 6’3”, and when Red saw me coming up the aisle in Milwaukee, he said:”Look at this guy, he’s big enough to be his own state.”