Grumman G-21 Goose - Accidents and Incidents

Accidents and Incidents

27 January 1961

A JRF-5 of the French Navy crashed, killing Admiral Pierre Ponchardier and five others. This accident led the French Navy to retire all of their Grumman JRF-5 Gooses in the Spring of 1961.

22 June 1972

N1513V of Reeve Aleutian Airways was written off at False Pass, Alaska.

2 September 1978

Charles F. Blair, Jr., former Naval Air Transport Service and Pan American Airways pilot and husband to actress Maureen O'Hara was flying a Grumman Goose that belonged to his company, Antilles Air Boats, from St. Croix to St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands when it crashed into the ocean due to engine failure. He and three passengers were killed, seven passengers were severely injured.

3 August 2008

A Grumman Goose of Pacific Coastal Airlines with seven passengers and crew crashed during a flight from Port Hardy to Chamiss Bay. The aircraft was completely destroyed by a fire. There were only two survivors.

16 November 2008

A Grumman Goose of Pacific Coastal Airlines with eight passengers and crew crashed during a flight from Vancouver International Airport to Toba Inlet, BC. The aircraft exploded into a mass of burning wreckage according to the lone survivor. This person was rescued up by the Coast Guard on South Thormanby Island off British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. The company resumed floatplane operations on November 19, 2008.

27 February 2011

A turbine Goose, N221AG, crashed in the United Arab Emirates when it veered immediately after takeoff. Although registered in the US as a McKinnon G-21G, the aircraft was not an actual McKinnon conversion; it was instead actually designed and built by the Fish & Wildlife Service in Alaska, who originally intended it to be re-certified as a model G-21F, but that design was never formally approved as such by the FAA.