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Yahoo
29-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Hydrogen balloon heading for Europe makes emergency landing in P.E.I.
Three crew members are safe after a hydrogen air balloon on a transatlantic flight path had to make an emergency landing in Prince Edward Island. "It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that The Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer Balloon has been forced to land ... with a suspected gas leak," reads a post on the Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer Flight Control Facebook page. The balloon landed in a swamp near Cardigan, on P.E.I.'s east coast, where crew members became stuck, said the Halifax-based Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (JRCC). The rescue centre said a local EMS team treated one crew member for minor injuries, and all three are safe. JRCC is no longer involved after assessing the situation, the centre told CBC News. The Torabhaig Atlantic Explorer was aiming to be the first craft of its kind to cross the Atlantic Ocean, according to the group's website. A post on the site said the balloon, "piloted by Bert Padelt and co-piloted by Peter Cuneo and Alicia Hempleman-Adams, will take flight as part of an audacious adventure of old friends on a journey that will look for new scientific discoveries while aiming to become the first ever flight of an open basket hydrogen balloon across the Atlantic." The project's website said the balloon took off from Presque Isle, Maine, on May 24. "Their route will take them from Maine over Newfoundland, Canada, across the Atlantic Ocean, and then Ireland and Scottish waters before landing in Europe, traversing over many thousands of miles," the site said. TSB assessing situation The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has been made aware of the landing and is collecting data and assessing the incident, the federal agency confirmed. RCMP were called to assist, but are no longer involved as there is no investigation, police said. In the hour before the emergency landing, many Prince Edward Islanders noted the white aircraft in the sky and posted photos and questions about it on social media.
Hamilton Spectator
01-05-2025
- General
- Hamilton Spectator
RCMP in eastern Newfoundland take over search for pilot of downed small plane
ST. JOHN'S - The RCMP have taken over the search for a pilot reported missing after his small aircraft crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of Newfoundland on Tuesday morning. A spokesman for the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax says a search started after the centre received a signal from an emergency beacon around 9 a.m. Atlantic time. Over the next two days, members of the military and the Canadian Coast Guard found an oil slick, one of the amphibious plane's floats, an empty life-raft and other debris about 225 kilometres east of St. John's. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says the single-engine Air Tractor AT-802 took off from St. John's International Airport with only the pilot aboard on Tuesday morning, heading for the Azores — a chain of islands off the west coast of Portugal. The board has confirmed the turboprop was purchased in the United States by a man from Spain, whose flight plan included a stopover in St. John's. A military spokesman says the RCMP are now handling the pilot's disappearance as a missing persons case. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 1, 2025.
Toronto Star
01-05-2025
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- Toronto Star
RCMP in eastern Newfoundland take over search for pilot of downed small plane
ST. JOHN'S - The RCMP have taken over the search for a pilot reported missing after his small aircraft crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of Newfoundland on Tuesday morning. A spokesman for the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax says a search started after the centre received a signal from an emergency beacon around 9 a.m. Atlantic time.
Winnipeg Free Press
01-05-2025
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- Winnipeg Free Press
RCMP in eastern Newfoundland take over search for pilot of downed small plane
ST. JOHN'S – The RCMP have taken over the search for a pilot reported missing after his small aircraft crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of Newfoundland on Tuesday morning. A spokesman for the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax says a search started after the centre received a signal from an emergency beacon around 9 a.m. Atlantic time. Over the next two days, members of the military and the Canadian Coast Guard found an oil slick, one of the amphibious plane's floats, an empty life-raft and other debris about 225 kilometres east of St. John's. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says the single-engine Air Tractor AT-802 took off from St. John's International Airport with only the pilot aboard on Tuesday morning, heading for the Azores — a chain of islands off the west coast of Portugal. The board has confirmed the turboprop was purchased in the United States by a man from Spain, whose flight plan included a stopover in St. John's. During Elections Get campaign news, insight, analysis and commentary delivered to your inbox during Canada's 2025 election. A military spokesman says the RCMP are now handling the pilot's disappearance as a missing persons case. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 1, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
01-05-2025
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- Winnipeg Free Press
Spanish pilot missing after small plane crossing Atlantic crashes off Newfoundland
ST. JOHN'S – The search for a pilot whose small aircraft crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of Newfoundland continued for a second day on Wednesday. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says the single-engine Air Tractor AT-802 took off from St. John's International Airport with only the pilot aboard on Tuesday morning. A spokesman for the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax says the centre received a signal from an emergency beacon around 9 a.m. Atlantic time. Lt.-Cmdr. Len Hickey says the signal came from an area 225 kilometres east of St. John's. He says two Canadian Coast Guard vessels and two fishing boats were dispatched to the scene to begin the search, and they were joined by a military CH-149 Cormorant search-and-rescue helicopter and a CC-130 Hercules fixed-wing aircraft. The searchers later found an oil slick, one of the amphibious plane's floats, as well as an empty orange life-raft and some other debris. Hickey said the transportation board confirmed the turboprop had been purchased in the United States by a man from Spain, whose flight plan included a stopover in St. John's before heading to the Azores, an island chain west of Portugal. During Elections Get campaign news, insight, analysis and commentary delivered to your inbox during Canada's 2025 election. The highly agile Air Tractor aircraft, which has a range of almost 1,000 kilometres, is primarily used for spraying agricultural crops. But it can also be used for aerial firefighting when equipped with floats. Typically, smaller aircraft do not have the range to complete a transatlantic flight, but they can be equipped with auxiliary fuel tanks to extend their flight time. 'He was working his way up the eastern seaboard with the last touch point in North America being St. John's before he crossed the Atlantic,' Hickey said in an interview. 'The Azores was listed in the flight plan as the destination.' Hickey said Wednesday the two fishing boats were released from the search later in the day, and he confirmed the search would continue until sundown. At that point if the pilot had not been found, the RCMP was expected to take on the case as a missing person file. This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 30, 2025.
