TSB Releases Report On Fatal Northern Air Crash

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has ruled that operational pressures, bad weather, and a lack of experience factored in a fatal plane crash in northwestern Ontario.
Spokesperson Peter Hildebrand says the pilot and three passengers died when the Keystone Air Service aircraft went down in a snowstorm about 2-kilometres shy of the runway at North Spirit Lake on January 10th, 2012.
Hildebrand says the plane left Winnipeg in ideal conditions en route to North Spirit Lake.
Hildebrand says the weather was bad in the remote northern community and airport crews were in the midst of clearing the runway during the descent of the aircraft.
He adds Flight 213, was forced to circle for several minutes resulting in the build-up of ice.
Hildebrand says the plane stalled during the final approach at an altitude from which recovery wasn’t possible.
The TSB suggests the pilot was likely not aware of the aircraft’s performance in icing conditions and de-icing capabilities.
Inexperience was a factor in one other cause.
36-year-old Brian Shead was the only survivor of the crash.