On 02 May 2024, a Bell 206L helicopter, operated by Custom Helicopters Ltd., departed from Goose Bay Airport, Newfoundland and Labrador, on a visual flight rules flight to Pangnirtung Airport, Nunavut, in conditions of reduced visibility and cloud ceilings because of ongoing light snowfall with only the pilot on board.
On , a DHC-2 MK I Beaver operated by Harbour Air Limited was conducting a local sightseeing flight from Vancouver Harbour Water Aerodrome, British Columbia, with one pilot and five passengers on board.
On 28 June 2024, a Bell Textron Inc. 212 helicopter operated by Great Slave Helicopters 2018 Ltd. was in the area of Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, supporting wildfire suppression efforts. Shortly after takeoff from Fort Good Hope Airport (CYGH), the helicopter experienced a main rotor blade separation from the head. Immediately thereafter, the remaining rotor blade and rotor head separated from the mast. The helicopter then collided with the terrain, resulting in a post-impact fire.
With a view to advancing transportation safety, the TSB is publishing data from its Aviation Safety Information System (ASIS) on reportable accidents and incidents (which together are called occurrences) for use by industry and the public. The TSB gathers the data in the course of its investigations and uses it to analyze safety deficiencies and identify risks in the Canadian transportation system.
Large commercial aircraft (over 12 500 pounds) are required to be equipped with a flight data recorder (FDR) and a cockpit voice recorder (CVR). These recorders are frequently called the "black boxes".
The CVR records radio transmissions and the acoustic environment in the cockpit, notably internal communications between the pilots and sounds such as engine noises.
The following is an executive summary of the report by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) into the accident involving Swissair Flight 111 near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, on the night of 2 September 1998. The aircraft, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 with 215 passengers and 14 crew members on board, was on a scheduled flight from New York, United States of America, to Geneva, Switzerland.
