TSB releases report on 2022 fatal plane crash in Stratford, Ont. | 24CA News
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada doesn’t seem to have definitive solutions into what brought on the deadly airplane crash close to Stratford Municipal Airport final August.
The collision, which concerned a Grumman G-44 Widgeon, occurred on Aug. 23, 2022, and left the pilot because the lone casualty.
The TSB launched its report on Thursday which offered some particulars into the crash involving a aircraft that had taken off from Sarnia Chris Hadfield Airport earlier within the morning and was headed to Stratford for a routine inspection.
It says that at round 9:10 a.m., the aircraft was noticed flying to the airport in poor visibility situations however then disappeared from the sight of the airport earlier than the sound of the crash was heard a number of seconds later.
Emergency officers have been referred to as to the positioning of the crash, which was about 1.3 nautical miles from the runway the place it was to land.
The report doesn’t present definitive solutions as to what brought on the crash, saying that poor visibility and an aerodynamic stall might have performed an element within the collision.
It notes that the “aircraft struck the ground in a nearly vertical attitude” and “the wings and flight controls were also damaged in the fire, which prevented verification of flight control continuity.”
The aircraft was not required to have an information recorder, and didn’t, which handicapped the efforts of investigators to find out precisely what brought on the crash, in line with the report.
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