West Wind Aviation CEO reflects on year after deadly crash
The president and CEO of West Wind Aviation says the company has undergone a near-total overhaul in the year since one if its planes crashed near a northern Saskatchewan airstrip.
“But our thoughts today, mostly, are around the people who were affected by the downing of Flight 280 and, obviously, our thoughts and prayers are with those folks,” said Michael Rodyniuk
The ATR 42-320 plane went down on the evening of Dec. 13, 2017, coming to rest less than a kilometre from the airstrip where it took off in Fond du Lac, Sask., a small community located about 75 kilometres from the province’s border with the Northwest Territories.
Several of the 22 passengers and three crew members on board had to be airlifted to hospital.