Accession Num: 2018.027.2.18
Negative Code: P17-18
Extent:
Document Date: 1960-04-09 - --
Donors: Wilf Hewat
Creators: Wilf Hewat
Keywords: 1950s, accidents, Canadian Pacific Railway, Columbia & Kootenay Railway, Grady; James, Kootenay Lake, McEachern; Glen, Okanagan Helicopters, train, and West Arm of Kootenay Lake
Locations: Nelson
Physical Description:
1 colour slide (35 mm)
Notes:
Men attending to Okanagan Helicopters helicopter crashed on beach of West Arm of Kootenay Lake below Canadian Pacific Railway, Nelson, 9 April 1960. Notes from Nelson Daily News, 11 April 1960: 'Two men escaped with minor injuries when a helicopter crashed in Nelson Saturday. Pilot James Grady tried to land the machine on the city wharf roadway when engine trouble developed, but the craft slid across the road, hit adjoining railway track and nosedived into the beach. Passenger was Glen McEachern.'