Category: Transportation Safety Board of Canada

Fatal Flight Carrying BC Fugitives Was Overweight When It Crashed in Ontario: TSB

November 17, 2022
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The Transportation Safety Board says a small plane that crashed in northern Ontario with two fugitives on board was overweight and the pilot was not qualified to fly at night. Flight records and witnesses have said the Piper Cherokee began its journey from British Columbia and made several stops before crashing near Sioux Lookout, Ont….

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One Dead After Helicopter Rolls on Landing Near Nunavut Gold Mine

September 15, 2021
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CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut—One man is dead after a helicopter rolled on landing Tuesday near a mine in western Nunavut. Agnico Eagle Mines, which operates the Hope Bay gold mine, says the man was a contract employee working 13 kilometres from the site. The mine, which is about 125 kilometres southwest of Cambridge Bay, suspended operations…

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Report Calls for Risk Mitigation for Vessels in Canadian Arctic After Ship Grounded

May 21, 2021
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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is calling for mandatory risk mitigation measures for vessels operating in the Canadian Arctic after a passenger boat ran aground nearly three years ago. The vessel Academik Ioffe was grounded in the western Gulf Boothia near Kugaaruk, Nunavut, with 102 passengers and 61 crew on board in August 2018….

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