Small plane crash kills ex-minister, six others off Canada island
Apparent unfavorable weather conditions have brought down a small plane in Canada’s eastern Quebec, killing all the seven people, including a former minister, on board.
Former Canadian Transport Minister Jean Lapierre (seen below) had chartered the Mitsubishi aircraft, which was flying from the St-Hubert regional airport south of Montreal to the Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence when it crashed on Tuesday.
He was supposed to attend his father’s funeral at the destination. The former minister was killed along his wife, two of his brothers, one of his sisters, another person as well as the pilot in the crash.
“The crash took place in a field on approach to the airport,” said Quebec provincial police sergeant Daniel Thibodeau.
The cause of the incident was not immediately known. Weather monitoring service Environment Canada had, however, issued an alert for strong winds in the region and local ambulance chief Benoit Leblanc said the aircraft was approaching for landing in fog and gusts of wind.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is deploying a team of investigators, which would only reach the site on Wednesday due to bad weather.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted that he was “shaken by the sudden death” of Lapierre, who held the ministerial portfolio from July 2004 to February 2006.
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