Air Tindi (8T, Yellowknife) has returned its fleet of three Cessna (single turboprop) Grand Caravan 208Bs to commercial service four weeks after grounding them. The turboprops were grounded in late November after one of them made a forced landing on Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories while en-route between Fort Simpson and Yellowknife. None of the six occupants were hurt.
The airline said that while the aircraft would resume operations, they will only do so so long as prevailing weather conditions are not conducive to icing.
"It wasn't the time to be having the aircraft up in the air until we really understood what had happened and get a feel for whether we could operate safely going forward," Al Martin, president of Air Tindi, told Canada's CBC.
Air Tindi also operates a fleet of five Dash 7s, DHC-6 and smaller Hawker Beechcraft aircraft on both scheduled and ad-hoc charter flights throughout the Northwest Territories.
