Urgent Recommendation Calls for Inspection of Canadian-Made de Havilland Otter Planes

Urgent Recommendation Calls for Inspection of Canadian-Made de Havilland Otter Planes
The home base for Northwest Seaplanes and Friday Harbor Seaplanes at the Renton Municipal Airport is seen Sept. 5, 2022. The Canadian Press/Martha Bellisle
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Aviation regulators in Canada and the United States are being urged to order the immediate inspection of a type of Canadian-built float plane involved in a deadly crash in Washington state.

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board issued an urgent safety recommendation Thursday, calling on Transport Canada and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to require immediate inspections of De Havilland Canada DHC-3 airplanes, better known as the DHC-3 Otter.