Transportation safety investigators are deploying to Alberta after a pilot died in a helicopter crash while fighting a wildfire. The pilot, a 41-year-old man from Whitecourt, Alta., was fatally injured in the crash, the RCMP say.
Smoke rises from the Bald Mountain Fire in the Grande Prairie Forest Area near Grande Prairie, Alta., on May 12, 2023. A helicopter involved in fighting fires in Peace River went down Wednesday evening.
The first signal from the helicopter's emergency locator transmitter was received at 6:15 p.m. from the crash site, 43 nautical miles east-northeast of Peace River, Krepski said. "I don't know what phase it would have been, whether it would have been while it was picking up water or it was releasing water. That is typically what we would try to find out."
Officers arrived around 8 p.m., about an hour after the first call to police came in, Savinkoff said Thursday.
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