Transportation Safety Board of Canada deploys a team of investigators to a float plane accident in the vicinity of Alert Bay, British Columbia

RICHMOND, BC, Oct. 24, 2013 /CNW/ - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has deployed a team of investigators to the site of a fatal aviation accident involving a commercially operated Cessna 185 float plane in the vicinity of Alert Bay, British Columbia. The TSB will gather information and assess the occurrence.

The TSB is an independent agency that advances transportation safety by investigating occurrences in the marine, pipeline, rail and air modes of transportation. 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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