By CKOM News

TSB report expected this week on Fond du Lac plane crash

Dec 13, 2018 | 9:05 AM

One year since a plane crashed after taking off from a northern Saskatchewan airstrip, a report is expected to provide more details about what happened.

The West Winds Aviation  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.

Arson Jr. Fern, 19, suffered broken legs, a broken pelvis, internal bleeding and a collapsed lung in the crash. Fern, who lived with cerebral palsy, was on the plane headed to a medical appointment. He died about two weeks after the crash.

The federal Transportation Safety Board (TSB) issued a preliminary report in April stating that the plane wasn’t de-iced before takeoff, but had adequate fuel and that both engines were working when it went down. At that time, there was still no definitive conclusion on what caused the crash.

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Fond du Lac Denesuline Nation Chief Louie Mercredi issued a call in May for improvements to the community’s airstrip, saying at the time that the runway was too small to accommodate the larger planes that were increasingly being used in the north.

The TSB announced it will deliver a report and recommendations Friday in Saskatoon stemming from its investigation.