The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has announced it is deploying a team of investigators to Fort Smith, N.W.T. to investigate a plane crash involving a BAE Jetstream aircraft registered to Northwestern Air Lease.
The TSB says it is gathering information and assessing the incident.
The RCMP, the Canadian Rangers and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) all responded to a report of lost contact with an aircraft outside of Fort Smith Tuesday morning, a spokesperson for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) has confirmed.
The air force dispatched a CC 138 Twin Otter from 440 Squadron in Yellowknife and a CC 130J Hercules out of 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron in
