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Limited pilot experience and low visibility factors in Kingston plane crash
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has found the combination of a pilot with limited experience, and deteriorating weather conditions, were the cause of an airplane crash in November 2019 that claimed the lives of seven people.
The Piper PA-32-260 crashed into a field between Highway 401 and Creekford Road, in the west end of Kingston, shortly after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019 while attempting an temporary stopover at Kingston airport due to weather conditions.
According to the release from the TSB, the incident highlights some of the risks of flying at night under visual flight rules (VFR), particularly when weather conditions are poor and over areas with little lighting. Visual flight rules refers to flying an aircraft without the use of electronic instrumentation, as opposed to Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), which is typically used to fly at night or in inclement weather and requi
OTTAWA The Transportation Safety Board concludes a pilot flying at night with limited experience did not recognize the hazards associated with night visual flight rules into poor weather conditions on the day of a fatal plane crash near Kingston. The pilot and six passengers were killed when a Piper PA-32-260 crashed north of the Kingston Airport on Nov. 27, 2019. In its final report, the TSB says the fatal crash highlights the risk of night flying with inadequate visual references to the surface, particularly when weather conditions are poor and over areas with little lighting. A privately registered U.S. Piper aircraft was flying from Toronto s Buttonville Municipal Airport to Neuville Airport in Quebec with a pilot and six passengers onboard.
Author of the article: Steph Crosier
Publishing date: Mar 04, 2021 • March 4, 2021 • 3 minute read The wreckage of the Piper PA32 that crashed in Kingston on Nov. 27, 2019, was transported to the Transportation Safety Board s Richmond Hill office for further examination. Seven people died in the crash. Photo by (Transportation Safety Board/Supplied Photo)
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An investigation into the airplane crash that took the lives of seven people, including three children, in November 2019 has led the Transportation Safety Board to highlight the dangers of flying using visual flight rules during adverse weather conditions.
At 5:05 p.m. on Nov. 27, 2019, a small Piper PA-32-260, flown by Otabek Oblokulov of Houston crashed into a wooded area in Kingston’s west end. The incident took his life and the life of his wife, Zamira Boboeva, and their three children, ages 14, 10 and five, as well as Oblokulov’s brother-in-law Bobomurod Nabiev and his wife, Sabina Usman
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