By Natalie Geddes

Mid-air plane crashes exceptionally rare

May 15, 2012 | 8:34 AM

Mid air plane collisions like the one over St. Brieux this weekend are exceptionally rare, but this tragedy is not the first one of it's kind in Saskatchewan.

Over the last fifty years less than thirty mid-air collisions have been recorded around the entire world.

Yet Moose Jaw was the scene of another historic plane on plane crash on a clear and sunny day in 1954.

“It was really traumatic for this community and yet I think that all the people that worked on it, they never forgot that day,” said Heather Smith, the curator at the Moose Jaw museum.

She says its an event that still gets people talking to this day.

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A NATO training plane crashed with a passenger flight bound from Winnipeg to Vancouver. In that crash 37 people died.

Despite three different investigations into what happened to cause the crash they failed to find a clear picture of what happened on that day.

“The only thing they could say is that it was just that the pilots didn't see each other and it can't really be explained any better than that,” Smith said.

Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board will be on the ground in St. Brieux for the next few days trying to find the cause of the crash that killed five people. In this case, debris from the crash will be integral to piecing together what happened Saturday.

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