A report on a cargo plane that crashed in the mountains north of Vancouver suggests it might have broken up in mid-flight.
Carson Air flight 66 had just taken off from YVR on Monday and was bound for Prince George when it lost altitude rapidly and disappeared off radar.
The Transportation Safety Board says the twin-engine plane dropped 1500 metres in less than 20 seconds and the crew didn’t declare an emergency.
North Shore Rescue ground search crews found aircraft wreckage in steep and heavily wooded terrain southeast of Crown Mountain.
Thirty-four-year-old pilot Robert Brandt and 32-year-old co-pilot Kevin Wang were killed.
Investigators say wreckage dispersal and the lack of terrain damage is consistent with an in-flight break-up.
The TSB released crash site images of wreckage in the North Shore mountains yesterday.
The plane was not equipped with cockpit voice or flight data recording systems. In 2013, the Transportation Safety Board made a recommendation calling for cockpit voice or flight data recording systems on smaller aircraft.
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