VICTORIA — A rare and historic water bomber that was on its final journey from British Columbia to a museum in Arizona was forced to make an emergency landing near Victoria due to mechanical issues.
The Victoria Airport Authority confirmed the Philippine Mars, one of two remaining aircraft of its kind, had to land at the airport's water aerodrome at Patricia Bay on Sunday due to mechanical problems.
Harper says the plane landed at around 1:20 p.m. on Sunday then spent about 40 minutes"doing circles" in the water before being moored.The aircraft owned by Coulson Aviation, based in Port Alberni, B.C., had taken off earlier in the day en route to the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Ariz., and was scheduled to stop in San Francisco before sunset to clear customs.
Harper says the Philippine Mars had passed over the airport in a planned flyby an hour before, so he was surprised to see it come back for a landing.
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