The Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA), is a Canada-wide volunteer aviation association dedicated to providing air search support services in downed aircraft, recently more humanitarian efforts, and promotes Canada’s Search and Rescue Program across Canada. Our volunteers, who receive no remuneration, are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to assist in providing air search assistance to the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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CASARA Major Search in Ontario
CASARA has recently been involved with a major search in Ontario. Here is a summary of coverage provided by Trenton JRCC on the search that took place:
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Feb 28th, 2023:
An RCAF CC130 Hercules is currently conducting a search for a missing Cessna 208 reported overdue after departing Nakina bound for Fort Hope, Ontario, on 28 Feb. An RCAF Gr...
CARES Niagara
An Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) and an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) are carried aboard aircraft and marine vessels. During a distress situation these devices can be activated (sometimes automatically) and assist Search and Rescue (SAR) personnel to locate the position of the distress. It is possible for the received ELT signal to sound different from se...
A Royal Canadian Air Force Twin Otter crew out for some search-and-rescue training accidentally found — and rescued — two Nunavut hunters on the land.
Thom Doelman, a captain with the Royal Canadian Air Force in Yellowknife, said the crew was flying near Hall Beach, Nunavut, during Operation Nunalivut, a sovereignty exercise that happens each year in Canada’s North.
Thursday afternoon’s traini...
By Paul D. Turner, CARES Niagara
As a Search and Rescue emergency response organization, each and every member must be prepared for what he / she might find on-scene. Most of the time we spend our time at cold, dark, and often deserted airports or other such locations during a SAR Actual tasking. Tracking what most members expect to be yet another one of those ELT / EPIRB false alerts we general...