The TSB's database of incidents includes two collisions in Vancouver's Coal Harbour and one in Tofino Harbour.
A seaplane crash involving a boat in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour on Saturday was the third in B.C. in the past 25 years — a list that includes one in Tofino, according to a database of investigations from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
The only other B.C.-based collision in the database involving boats and planes happened in 1999, when a boat carrying two tourists was struck by a float plane arriving in Vancouver from Victoria as it tried to land. The tourists were injured and one was hospitalized with broken ribs and a collapsed lung. No float plane passengers were injured.
A spokesperson from the TSB said it is “too early to say what the causal and contributing factors are,” but that investigators were on scene Sunday and have begun interviewing witnesses. Though boaters are legally permitted to go within the takeoff and landing zone, port authorities ask boaters to keep clear because of the heightened risk, said Sean Baxter, acting director of marine operations at the Port of Vancouver.A buoy outside the plane terminal marks the southwest corner of Area Alpha, but there are no formal visual markers on the water, Baxter said.
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