The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is citing the fatal crash of a Piper PA-31 Navajo during low altitude flight after a surveying mission to bolster its call for mandatory installation of lightweight flight recording systems in aircraft not currently required to carry flight recorders.
In a report released late last week, the TSB said that Exact Air, the operator of the Navajo, was “unaware that the occurrence pilots had frequently flown at very low altitudes while transiting between survey areas and the [Schefferville, Quebec] airport.”
The Navajo was flying between 40 ft and 100 ft above ground level on April 30, 2017, when it struck power transmission wires and crashed to the ground as the pilots headed back to Schefferville after their second survey flight of the day, the TSB said. Both pilots were killed.
The TSB said that “sensatio…
