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Aviation investigators are working to piece together what happened in a plane crash on Monday night that claimed the lives of five Canadians.
Investigators say that the pilot had radioed air traffic controllers that his engine had shut down prior to the crash.
That haunting final conversation between a pilot and an air traffic controller in Tennessee mark the final moments before a catastrophic crash.
“My engine turned off…I’m at 1600. I’m going to be landing, I don’t know where,” the pilot could be heard saying. “I’m too far away…I won’t make it.”
Dave Rohrer, the CEO of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum and former regional manager of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, says investigators will be looking at a number of factors in the crash that killed the pilot, another adult and three children.
The victims have been identified as a family from north of Toronto, 43-year-old Victor Dotsenko, his 39-year-old wife Rimma and their three children, 12-year-old David, 10-year-old Adam and seven-year-old Emma.
“He didn’t have a lot of time, his voice was very calm…when he said he lost power and they said he was cleared to land. He also indicated he was too far away at the altitude and that he wasn’t going to make it,” the aviation expert said.
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Rohrer said experience may have played a role, with a 300 hour pilot leading the flight.
“It’s a lot of time, but not a career flying,” he said.
Video from Nashville shows the Piper Airplane fly over the highway, before crashing and bursting into flames.
“He was at circuit altitude, which means in the event of an engine failure you don’t have a lot of time. Looking at the crash site he didn’t have a good spot to land,” Aaron McCarter of the National Transportation Safety Board said.
Aviation experts say they are confident the plane took off from the airport in Brampton and landed in Erie for customs before flying to Kentucky and then Nashville.
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They also didn’t suspect that a lack of fuel was an issue in this crash.
“It’s very tragic. It’s important for investigators to find out what happened for pilots to prevent this from happening again.”
The plane was based out of the Brampton-Caledon Airport, though there is no record of its departure given that the small airport is currently unregulated.
Authorities on both sides of the border are investigating the incident, and a preliminary report from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is expected in approximately 10 days.
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