PLANE CRASHES IN RED LAKE, ON – Five confirmed deceased
RED LAKE, ON – Sunday, November 10, 2013 at approximately 6:34 p.m. (CST) the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was notified that a Bearskin Airlines plane had crashed on the approach to landing at Red Lake airport. The Metro Fairchild 19 passenger plane had departed Sioux Lookout and was scheduled to land in Red Lake.Members of the OPP Red Lake Detachment including the OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), as well as members of the Red Lake Fire Department and ambulance responded to the location in the area of the Red Lake airport.
A fifty-year-old female from Winnipeg and a twenty-nine-year-old male from Winnipeg were both transported from the scene by ambulance with non-life threatening injuries. Five deceased have been confirmed. The identities of the deceased will be released when next of kin have been notified.
The OPP will remain on scene to assist the Transportation Safety Board of Canada in the investigation.
Further information will be released as it becomes available.
