By The Canadian Press

New report sheds light on Transwest crash

Jan 9, 2015 | 5:31 AM

Investigators have determined that a pilot made bad choices before he lost control of his float plane and died in a crash in the Northwest Territories two years ago.

According to the Transportation Safety Board, the Transwest Air pilot was

feeling ill but refused to call in sick. He also decided on his own to take off in a plane with a damaged wing. Both decisions violated airline policies.

Garrett Lawless with Transwest said the company has since reminded pilots not to work if they don’t feel fit to fly. He also said it’s developing a new training program for all staff.

“So that they truly understand how human factors work with a specific focus on decision making,” he said.

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Lawless said there were policies in place that required the pilot not to fly if he was unwell and to have the plane inspected.

“We didn’t know what to change to guarantee for ourselves that it would never happen again because looking at it analytically we were already doing everything that should have prevented this from happening in the first place.”

The plane went down near Ivanhoe Lake in August 2013.