Investigators probing a airplane crash that killed six folks within the Northwest Territories have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and talked to the lone survivor.
The investigation by the Transportation Security Board of Canada is in its early phases and has confronted some climate hurdles, however progress is being made, stated Jon Lee, the board’s western regional supervisor.
“We’ve recovered (the cockpit voice recorder) and it has reached our lab at this time and it’s within the strategy of being downloaded – the information – and analyzed,” Lee stated Wednesday.
“We perceive that the information is sweet, that the accident was recorded on the cockpit voice recorder. In order that’s excellent news for the investigation as a result of that’s going to supply a whole lot of good data going ahead.”
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The airplane was not the kind of plane that requires a flight information recorder to be on board, he added.
The constitution airplane, operated by Northwestern Air Lease, crashed simply after takeoff final Tuesday in Fort Smith, a city on the boundary with Alberta. It was headed to the Diavik Diamond Mine, some 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife.
Investigators have stated the airplane hit the bottom simply outdoors Fort Smith and caught fireplace.
4 mine staff and each flight crew members died, whereas one other mine employee survived and was airlifted to hospital in Yellowknife.
Investigators have talked with the survivor, Lee stated.
One hurdle thus far has been the climate. Freezing rain has hampered efforts by a salvage firm to get a helicopter to the crash web site to retrieve the airplane wreckage, which is then to be transported by truck to the board’s workplaces in Edmonton.
“That’s placed on maintain proper now as a result of climate.”
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