Transportation Safety Board

• Commercial helicopter came within four metres of ditching in the Atlantic: report

  The two pilots aboard the Sikorsky S-92A helicopter had difficulty landing due to poor visibility, according to a report from the Transportation Safety Board.

  Canada

  Apr 27
• Failed fitting caused 190,000-litre spill at Trans Mountain site in Abbotsford, B.C.: TSB

  Tests showed the compression fitting was not properly tightened when it was installed on a tube that carries a small amount of oil to a section of the pump station for analysis.

  Environment

  Apr 13
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• Downed Iran plane: Families of Edmonton victims demand real truth in wake of final report

  Unsettling reaction has poured in over the final report into the downing of Ukraine Airlines flight PS752. More than a year later, more questions than answers remain.

  Canada

  Mar 18
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• TSB says Iran report on downing of flight PS752 explains what happened, but doesn’t say why

  The final report from Iran's civil aviation body blames "human error" as the reason why the Revolutionary Guard shot down the jet minutes after it took off on Jan. 8 last year.

  Canada

  Mar 18
• Plane hit power line before crash near Edmonton that killed well-known pilot: TSB

  The Transportation Safety Board says a plane that crashed last year southwest of Edmonton killing the two people on board, had collided with a power line.

  Canada

  Mar 3
• Senior’s impaired vision likely cause of fatal crash between train, vehicle in Montreal: Report

  The victim's driver’s licence had been suspended in Nov. 2018 following a report by a health-care professional stating that he was unfit to drive due to his impaired vision.

  News

  Mar 1
• Anchors failed to deploy during B.C. ferry’s ‘hard landing’ at Tsawwassen terminal: TSB

  According to the Transportation Safety Board, the Spirit of Vancouver Island ended up striking a concrete abutment at a speed of 5.4 knots.

  Canada

  Feb 11
• What happened to… the Lac Megantic train derailment

  On this episode of the Global News podcast Whatever Happened To…?, journalist Erica Vella revisits the 2013 Lac Megantic train derailment.

  Canada

  Feb 11
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• TSB says plane that crashed near Edmonton, killing 3 people, caused by stall during turn

  The Transportation Safety Board says an amateur-built float plane stalled while making a turn south of Edmonton last summer before crashing and killing all three people on board.

  Canada

  Jan 13
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• Fate of 2 people in aircraft last seen over Fraser River in June remains unknown

  The Transporation Safety Board said in a report Thursday that the Cessna 172M aircraft was conducting a local training flight from Boundary Bay Airport.

  Investigations

  Jan 7