And the Department of Civil Aviation is currently investigating the cause of the crash. While little is known so far, Director Nigel Carter explained that the aircraft had recently been checked and was receiving annual reviews. He spoke with us via Zoom about what they know so far.
Nigel Carter, Director, Civil Aviation
"I've only seen the same videos that you've seen and we can't really speculate, but it does seem like there is some aerodynamic situation that might have occurred there."
"We know of the nature of the operation; the aircraft was most recently checked, I believe in January of this year. The aircraft was checked and was found to be airworthy. The pilot as well last renewed his license, I think earlier this year as well. And so everything seemed to have been fine on those fronts."
"After the preliminary investigation, the onsite investigation is done, we make a determination into what, if any, safety measures need to be put in place, and then we go about effecting those safety measures. I won't say it will affect the company as a whole. If it was obviously an isolated situation, then there's not much we can do. If it is something that is systemic, if it is something that affects other aircraft, and so then maybe we would have to go about making certain changes, we would have to give certain directions for certain changes in operations and so forth."
"In my last 20-plus years, I believe this is only my second fatal accident, so I will say that accidents on a whole have become pretty rare, and more so fatal accidents as well. But looking at it, it would be hard to think anybody would survive such an accident."
We'll keep following the story.
