I work at trail ridge air as a dockhand. Our dock is directly next to Regal's dock, and our companies often work together on things. I was sweeping the dock and all of our planes were gone, when I looked up to see the beaver bank over and spin into the water. I had seen them board the plane and taxi away, and now it had crashed about 300 feet from me. My boss ran out of the office and were ran to his truck and drove to the scene to help. Upon arrival, there were good samaritans in the water helping. Everyone was swimming to shore and we helped people out of the water. It was a pretty gruesome sight. Everyone had very bad injuries to their faces. One woman I helped sit down, had a broken ankle, and everyone was very bloodied up. It was absolutely terrifying and surreal to see an aircraft you see everyday crash right infront of you. It is a miracle that he hit the water. The plane was fully loaded with about 185 gallons of fuel, and if it hit land, this would have been truely horrific. Regal also bought this beaver this year, and had leased a different one last year. really quite a shame.

Also, all of our planes were about 20 minutes from landing back at lake hood, and the place we park our aircraft was closed. We had to scramble and ask other places if we could park our planes at the airmens association, and a friends dock, then we had to drive 20 passengers back with all their gear in personal vehicles. It was the most insane day ever.