[Two injured after float plane crashes into boat in Vancouver] The boat was stand-on even if it was two boats and the airplane was give-way even if it was two airplanes, but the boat sure did not seem to take any action at all to avoid the collision. The pilot of the airplane has poor v…

There’s an ATC tower on the south shore of the harbor that controls floatplane and helicopter traffic below 2500 feet.

They had no comms with the boat though.

True, different frequencies. There are no floats marking boundaries but air traffic does follow predictable patterns. With any degree of situational awareness, hard to miss a Beaver taking off with a CBDR. Not assigning blame. I flew a 180 on floats a handful of times up the river in Coquitlam but n…

Using maritime standards of blame they would both be blamed, the seaplane for not giving way and the boat for not avoiding a collision. They had to be looking at anything else but where they were going!

There’s a recording of the controller calling out the boat traffic but evidently the pilot didn’t hear him. He didn’t acknowledge it and on the recording I didn’t hear the controller follow up to confirm that he received it. [image] Warning from control tower to pilot issued before Vancouv…

I was more thinking of the skipper of the boat, the airplane had to be pretty freaking obvious!

Boaters aren’t prohibited from operating where seaplanes take off and land, they are advised to exercise caution. Visibility forward with that huge engine in a Beaver seaplane on a take off run is restricted until it gets up on the step so it’s possible he didn’t see the boat until it was too late t…

Likely both the boat operator and pilot were distracted and/or too narrowly focused on tasks other than lookout. COLREGs are useful for determining legal fault after the fact but for someone out on a boat for pleasure why put yourself and passengers in a ‘risk of collision’ situation in the first …

Boat Vs. Airplane, both lose

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Skiing_Salem_Sailor June 11, 2024, 3:22pm 3

Might want to check the colregs.

Seaplanes shall, in general, maintain clear of all vessels. I suspect there is probably more to this story though.

Both at fault regardless.

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