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Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada are expected to arrive in Pukatawagan today to lead the probe into the fatal plane crash yesterday that killed a 56-year-old man from Opaskwayak Cree Nation.
The passenger was killed when a small commercial aircraft went off the end of the 3,000-foot crushed rock surface runway around 4 p.m. and there was an ensuing fire, RCMP said.
The Manitoba Department of Infrastructure and Transportation s Northern Airports and Marine Operations division operate the Pukatawagan Airport (ZFG).
Pukatawagan is about 210 kilometres north of The Pas.
Sgt. Line Karpish, an RCMP media spokesperson for D Division in Winnipeg, said there were eight passengers and a pilot on board the aircraft.