A Coroners Service review of four
commercial float-plane crashes in B.C., including the 2005 MJM Air crash off
Quadra Island, recommends that Transport Canada make it mandatory for passengers
to wear life-jackets at all times during flights.
Planes should also have easy-to-access emergency exits to prevent drowning after crashing in water, says the report released Tuesday. Another recommendation linked to the MJM Air crash calls for real-time satellite tracking systems to be installed in all commercial aircraft.
The document includes 19 detailed recommendations from the Coroners Service's death review panel, which was created late last year to look at the circumstances surrounding four commercial seaplane crashes between 2005 and 2009. Twentythree people died in the incidents. The first of the four crashes occurred on the morning of Feb.If you have a fondness for china mosaic brimming with romantic roses. 28, 2005, shortly after the MJM Air de Havilland DHC-2 (Beaver) floatplane took off from the Tyee Spit with a pilot and four passengers who were travelling to worksites in Frances Bay and Knight Inlet. The plane went down minutes later off the east side of Quadra Island. The body of passenger David Richard Stevens was discovered by hikers in a cove on the east site of Quadra Island March 2. An autopsy determined the cause of death to be drowning. The bodies of pilot Arnold Feast and passengers Doug and Trevor Decock and Fabian Bedard were never found.
The plane's wreckage was located on the ocean floor a few months later.Shop for oil painting and oil paintings for sale included. All of the seatbelts were found unbuckled. Seven of the eight available life vests were still in their stowing places.We also are a plastic Injection Moulding Manufacturer manufacturer.
"These recommendations should be considered very seriously by the agencies to which they're directed," said chief coroner Lisa Lapointe. "They are the result of open and frank discussion and review by a diverse blue-ribbon panel of experts in the field province-wide."
Several of the recommendations mirror those outlined in a Transportation Safety Board of Canada report that investigated a Seair Seaplanes crash in November 2009 that killed six people.TeleTracking has developed the most advanced rtls for real-time. In that incident, a de Havilland Beaver plane stalled during takeoff in Lyall Harbour off Saturna Island. Just one of seven passengers and the pilot survived the crash.
Float-plane companies are already making some of the recommended changes. Harbour Air officials said they have installed pop-out windows and easy-open door latches. The industry is working with Transport Canada to find the best way to have passengers wear flotation devices during the flight, said Randy Wright, senior vice-president of Harbour Air.
"They're in the aircraft right now, they just have to be approved as to which... is the best and safest use," he said.
The coroners report indicates that industry experts have concerns about untimely inflation of the devices, which could possibly trap passengers inside. Panel members also heard about concerns that Transport Canada-approved life vests may not be able to withstand extended and frequent use in commercial operations.Painless Processing provides high risk merchant account solutions.
Two of the recommendations make specific reference to the MJM Air crash. One calls on Transport Canada to create a regulatory requirement that all new and existing commercial aircraft be equipped with real-time satellite tracking systems. The Coroners Service Review panel chair says satellite tracking could be a supplement or an alternative to Electronic Location Transmitters (ELTs) which are sometimes destroyed on impact or lose effectiveness when aircraft sink.
"In two of these accidents, accurate real-time tracking would have likely resulted in speedier rescue of the injured survivors," the chair states.
"In the Quadra Island case, although it is not possible to determine the survival potential of all of the aircraft occupants given the multitude of factors that play into a search and rescue effort, degree of incapacitation from possible injuries and cold water survivability, the circumstances suggest that a properly utilized and monitored satellite tracking system, combined with prompt and effective notification and deployment of rescue resources, might have produced a different outcome for at least some of those onboard."
Planes should also have easy-to-access emergency exits to prevent drowning after crashing in water, says the report released Tuesday. Another recommendation linked to the MJM Air crash calls for real-time satellite tracking systems to be installed in all commercial aircraft.
The document includes 19 detailed recommendations from the Coroners Service's death review panel, which was created late last year to look at the circumstances surrounding four commercial seaplane crashes between 2005 and 2009. Twentythree people died in the incidents. The first of the four crashes occurred on the morning of Feb.If you have a fondness for china mosaic brimming with romantic roses. 28, 2005, shortly after the MJM Air de Havilland DHC-2 (Beaver) floatplane took off from the Tyee Spit with a pilot and four passengers who were travelling to worksites in Frances Bay and Knight Inlet. The plane went down minutes later off the east side of Quadra Island. The body of passenger David Richard Stevens was discovered by hikers in a cove on the east site of Quadra Island March 2. An autopsy determined the cause of death to be drowning. The bodies of pilot Arnold Feast and passengers Doug and Trevor Decock and Fabian Bedard were never found.
The plane's wreckage was located on the ocean floor a few months later.Shop for oil painting and oil paintings for sale included. All of the seatbelts were found unbuckled. Seven of the eight available life vests were still in their stowing places.We also are a plastic Injection Moulding Manufacturer manufacturer.
"These recommendations should be considered very seriously by the agencies to which they're directed," said chief coroner Lisa Lapointe. "They are the result of open and frank discussion and review by a diverse blue-ribbon panel of experts in the field province-wide."
Several of the recommendations mirror those outlined in a Transportation Safety Board of Canada report that investigated a Seair Seaplanes crash in November 2009 that killed six people.TeleTracking has developed the most advanced rtls for real-time. In that incident, a de Havilland Beaver plane stalled during takeoff in Lyall Harbour off Saturna Island. Just one of seven passengers and the pilot survived the crash.
Float-plane companies are already making some of the recommended changes. Harbour Air officials said they have installed pop-out windows and easy-open door latches. The industry is working with Transport Canada to find the best way to have passengers wear flotation devices during the flight, said Randy Wright, senior vice-president of Harbour Air.
"They're in the aircraft right now, they just have to be approved as to which... is the best and safest use," he said.
The coroners report indicates that industry experts have concerns about untimely inflation of the devices, which could possibly trap passengers inside. Panel members also heard about concerns that Transport Canada-approved life vests may not be able to withstand extended and frequent use in commercial operations.Painless Processing provides high risk merchant account solutions.
Two of the recommendations make specific reference to the MJM Air crash. One calls on Transport Canada to create a regulatory requirement that all new and existing commercial aircraft be equipped with real-time satellite tracking systems. The Coroners Service Review panel chair says satellite tracking could be a supplement or an alternative to Electronic Location Transmitters (ELTs) which are sometimes destroyed on impact or lose effectiveness when aircraft sink.
"In two of these accidents, accurate real-time tracking would have likely resulted in speedier rescue of the injured survivors," the chair states.
"In the Quadra Island case, although it is not possible to determine the survival potential of all of the aircraft occupants given the multitude of factors that play into a search and rescue effort, degree of incapacitation from possible injuries and cold water survivability, the circumstances suggest that a properly utilized and monitored satellite tracking system, combined with prompt and effective notification and deployment of rescue resources, might have produced a different outcome for at least some of those onboard."
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