No investigation is needed
The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada will not perform a full investigation into a forced landing that saw a plane carrying three individuals roll over in a farm field on Sunday.
However, information from the forced landing will be recorded to provide some future insight on similar occurrences. Daphne Boothe, manager of operations for the Atlantic region, said the TSB does not require a full investigation on every incident.
“We would do an investigation on select occurrences if we think we can advance transportation safety,” she said. “In this case, we’re collecting information of the facts and putting it in our data set for statistics and trend analysis.”
Boothe said TSB members spoke with individuals who were on the scene before making the decision.
The image of a plane laying upside-down in a farm field led many drivers to stop with concern
on Sunday.
However, none of the three individuals who were in the plane suffered any injuries other than bruises and minor abrasions. The plane was at about 2,000 feet altitude when the engine failed, prompting pilot Paul Tymstra to do the forced landing.
RCMP commented at the scene that the three were largely
“unscathed” from the incident. Although Tymstra was successful in bringing the plane to the ground, the moist conditions of the field caused the front landing wheel to stick into the ground.
The soft ground and weight of the plane moving forward caused it to flip over. Boothe said the TSB will continue working with Tymstra to
determine the cause of the engine failure.
“He’ll be doing some examining and reporting back to us,” said Boothe.
She said that practising forced landings is part of training for all pilots.
“From the moment you have a private pilot’s license and onward, you train for that kind of scenario,” she said.