Lots of Luck: Both Kinds!
Posted on 5 May 2009 at 07:10

North-Wright Airways Beech 99 C-FKHD parked on the Dempster Highway 6NM south of Inuvik.
It's been a while since anything interesting has come up but this one was worthy of posting. It's hard to decide whether the pilot was unlucky by running out of fuel on approach into Inuvik or lucky that he just happened to be within gliding distance of one of the only straight stretches on the only road within hundreds of miles. He pulled off the dead-stick landing with no damage or injuries and once all the paperwork was done the aircraft was checked out, refueled, and flown off the highway. There were no passengers on board at the time of the incident.

Not much room for error as the Beech 99 is flown off the narrow gravel highway.
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