SANIKILUAQ, Nunavut – Investigators have located the flight data recorder that may hold clues to a plane crash that claimed the life of a six-month-old infant in Nunavut.
Julie Leroux, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, says officials will be studying the black box located by the RCMP to help determine what happened.
She says the agency has launched a full investigation.
The RCMP say a chartered plane with nine people on board crashed on Saturday shortly after 6 p.m. Eight survivors are all being treated for non-life threatening injuries.
The Perimeter Aviation LP aircraft went down in the community of Sanikiluaq, located on the Belcher Islands in the southeastern corner of Hudson Bay.
A release from the RCMP said the Fairchild Metro 3/23 twin-engine turbo prop crashed near the end of the runway of the airport, which sits on the north tip of Flaherty Island, roughly 150 kilometres from the Quebec shoreline.
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