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This is the story of Air tindi flight, on the 30th of january 2019, an air tindi beechcraft 200 was on the ground at yellowknife airport in canada, for the pilots of the beechcraft that day would be hectic as they had 6 planned legs that day. Theyd leave yellow knife and first head to whati from there to wekweeti airport. From there they would go to Ekati aerodrome after that theyd fly the reverse to get back to yellowknife. Smaller communities in canada depend on small beechrafts like this for all that they need, flights like these are quite literally one of their biggest life lines to the wider world. By 7:45 am the plane was wheeled out of the hangar and it was fueled with 3200 pounds of fuel for the days flights. With fueling done the pilots entered the cockpit and began the pre departure checklist. On the right hand side the first officer noted that the right hand side attitude indicator was not erect. Pilots make use of the attitude indicator to make sure that the plane is level and stable when external horizons are not available. In short its a pretty important piece indicator, but the plane had two so the captain was not that concerned. He assured his first officer that the attitude indicator would sort itself out soon enough. As the pilots went through their checklists the first officer had an eye on the attitude indicator just checking on it to see if was back up and running. Even when the captain reading off the takeoff briefing the attitude indicator was broken. The pilots discussed their flight and their plane, they talked about how on That day they could expect some moderate icing above 4000 feet but other than that it was a great day for flying and the captain talked about how he wanted to leave the gear down for a bit after takeoff to blow off some of the snow that had accumulated on the gear. Finally the captain asked the first officer if he had any questions, the first officer had none. As the first officer finished the lineup checklist flight 503 lined up on the runway.
At 8:51 am takeoff power was applied and flight 503 started its takeoff roll. As the plane picked up speed the captain wanted to know if the right hand attitude indicator was working, the first officer replied that it wasnt. As flight 503 climbed away form yellowknife the pilots started with the after takeoff checklist. Even after takeoff the attitude indicator wasnt working, the captain suggested that the first officer give it a few taps to see if that would fix the problem. But as the beechcraft climbed any hopes of the attitude indicator coming back online fell. Soon they were at 12000 feet their cruising altitude. The captain turned on the autopilot so that they could trouble shoot the right hand side attitude indicator, throughout their cruise the pilots tried to fix the attitude indicator. But it didnt work, by 9:05 am it was time for them to start their descent. They would first be making an rnav approach to runway 28 and then they would circle and land on runway 10. As they finished their descent checklist the pilots got a transmission from another plane that had landed at whati, from this other plane they were able to get runway and weather condtions. By 9:10 am the plane was descending through 10,800 feet. They would be on the ground soon the pilots made the necessary radio calls as they approached the airport. Then at 9:11 am the captains attitude indicator showed a red gyro flag. It had failed. It took the autopilot with it as well. The captain started to fly the plane on partial instruments and he arrested their descent. At first they started to climb but that didnt last long, the beechcraft started to lose altitude, at first the plane was turning to the right . Within about 38 seconds the turn to the right was replaced by a turn to the left. The left turn got steeper and steeper, within seconds flight 503 was spiraling . there was no coming back for flight 503. In the cockpit the pilots were getting pull up warnings but they couldnt. At 9:12 am and 24 seconds flight 503 impacted the terrain. A satellite orbiting overheard picked up flight 503’s emergency locator transmitter and within an hour a C130 hercules was dispatched from winnipeg to search for the missing plane. By 2pm the c130 had found the crash site of the beechcraft. None of the two pilots on board had survived.