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Missing Parts From Fatal Fort Simpson, NWT Plane Crash Found by Investigators
The recovered wing and tail sections will help investigators examine why the wildfire-response plane broke apart mid-flight, killing all three people aboard.
- The Transportation Safety Board announced Thursday it has recovered the final missing parts from the plane that crashed near Fort Simpson this past June, allowing investigators to begin a detailed examination of the wreckage.
- On June 24, the aircraft killed all three occupants—air attack officer Olivier Lamy, trainee Ryan Beck, and pilot Robert MacLeod—while assisting with a wildfire burning around 28 nautical miles west of Fort Simpson Airport.
- Recovery of the wreckage occurred in stages: investigators found the left wing buried in muskeg on July 26, then located the tail sections in a lake approximately 1,000 ft. southeast of the original crash site on Sept. 23.
- Jonathan Lee, TSB western regional manager, previously described in-flight breakups as "very rare," and the agency will now conduct a thorough examination alongside representatives from Buffalo Airways Ltd. and Transport Canada.
- Wildfire activity in the region forced the TSB to postpone recovery operations for several weeks; investigators could not safely access the site until conditions improved enough to retrieve components for analysis.
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Investigators salvage parts of airplane downed in fatal Fort Simpson crash
Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) say they’ve now found the missing parts of the airplane that crashed near Fort Simpson over the summer and can now look them over to determine what caused the plane to break apart mid-flight.
·Ottawa, Canada
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