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60 views • April 26, 2018

Investigators say cause of Prentice crash still uncertain

Purtina Wang
The Transportation Safety Board is pointing to disorientation as the “most plausible scenario” for the plane crash that killed former Alberta premier Jim Prentice. The private jet went down shortly after takeoff from Kelowna, B.C., in October 2016.(April 26, 2018) SOUNDBITE: Kathy Fox, TSB Chair SOUNDBITE: Beverley Harvey TSB SENIOR INVESTIGATOR PLACELINE: Calgary CREDIT: The Canadian Press STORYLINE: The Transportation Safety Board says the pilot of a plane that crashed, killing former Alberta premier Jim Prentice, was probably disoriented while flying in the dark, but investigators will never know for sure because the aircraft didn't have flight recorders. The Cessna Citation jet went down shortly after takeoff from Kelowna, B.C., on its way to the Springbank airport west of Calgary in October 2016. The plane took off about 9:30 p.m. and shortly after took a steep descending right turn and hit the ground from 2,580 metres above sea level. The safety board says the "most plausible scenario" is that pilot Jim Kruk became spatially disoriented because he had a lot to do at the controls. Kruk, a retired RCMP officer, optometrist Ken Gellatly, the father-in-law of one of Prentice's three daughters and Calgary businessman Sheldon Reid all died with Prentice.
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