PRESS RELEASES 12/23/2012 11:19:00 AM | Canada News Wire

TSB is investigating an accident at Sanikiluaq Airport in Nunavut


GATINEAU, QC, Dec. 23, 2012 /CNW/ - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is investigating an accident involving Perimeter Aviation's Fairchild Metro 3 C-GFWY, chartered to Keewatin Air, that occurred on December 22, 2012, at Sanikiluaq Airport in Nunavut.

Please see the active investigation page on the TSB website at: http://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/enquetes-investigations/aviation/2012/a12q0216/a12q0216.asp. Follow us on Twitter @TSBCanada to see a photo of the wreckage.

The TSB is an independent agency that investigates marine, pipeline, railway and aviation transportation occurrences. Its sole aim is the advancement of transportation safety. It is not the function of the Board to assign fault or determine civil or criminal liability.

SOURCE: Transportation Safety Board of Canada



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