TSB hopes to remove most of remaining wreckage of cargo plane crash on the North Shore
Posted April 20, 2015 10:58 am.
Last Updated April 21, 2015 6:42 am.
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NORTH SHORE (NEWS1130) – The investigation into the cargo plane crash on the North Shore mountains last week continues.
Bill Yearwood with the Transportation Safety Board says wreckage is still being taken off the mountain.
“With the snow melting, I’m sure we’re going to find a lot more today and moving around the hillside will be a lot easier. We’re hoping we can get all of this done today,” he tells us.
“But I still think with this rough terrain. We’ll be finding bits and pieces for a long time… We’re going to make sure we get all the critical pieces.”
Carson Air Flight 66 left YVR at about 7 a.m. last Monday but lost contact with NavCanada on the way to Prince George. The wreckage was found later in the day.
The bodies of the two pilots, 34-year-old Robert Brandt and 32-year-old Kevin Wang, were found the next day.
Yearwood says investigators won’t have the benefit of a black box, which wasn’t in this plane. However, he points out the vast majority of planes that size do not have one.
