Ultralight crash probe unlikely to effect change
Transportation Safety Bureau assigned lead investigator to July 19 fatal incident in Burtts Corner, deemed it Class 4 occurrence, indicating low likelihood of new safety measures
The federal government’s transportation watchdog agency is continuing its investigation into a fatal crash of a small aircraft outside Fredericton this summer, but it’s unlikely to yield significant recommendations.
Retired Fredericton engineer and amateur pilot Ray St-Laurent, 74, of Fredericton, died just before noon on July 19 when the electric-powered ultralight aircraft he was flying solo crashed into a cornfield adjacent to Route 104 in Burtts Corner.
The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada, the federal agency tasked with investigating such transportation-related incidents, dispatched an investigative team to the site the same weekend.
Since that time, there had been no word on the status of the TSB’s investigation - until this week.