Cormorant Crashes off Nova Scotia Coast

 

(Photo courtesy of Canadian Press)

 

11 Feb 09

CF Statement:  "Completion of the Board of Inquiry for the July 13, 2006 Crash of Cormorant Helicopter CH149914"

 

"Family wants stiffer action by military after fatal chopper crash of N.S." (.pdf permalink)

 

9 Feb 09

Canadian Press:  "Emails warned of training problems before 2006 military chopper crash: report" (.pdf permalink)

 

17 Mar 08

Family of Fallen Crewman Should Have Corrected Training Issues Sooner (.pdf permalink)

 

11 Mar 08

Final Report:  Series of Errors Contributed to Crash - CF's "From the Investigator" - Full Report - Epilogue (all .pdf) - Canadian Press - CBC Online - CanWest - United Press International 

 

16 Jan 08

Chopper training problem stems from military's "decade of darkness" - expert (permalink) - More (permalink) - more (permalink)

 

15 Jan 08

Draft report: Pilots got inadequate training (permalink)

 

6 Aug 07

Family of Fallen Still Waiting for the Story

 

13 Jul 07

Memorial Cairn Honours Fallen Crew

 

14 Oct 06

Vibrating vests could save lives

 

29 Sept 06

Crash Survivor Tells Tale

 

27 Sept 06

Survival Suit Worn by SAR Tech Killed in Crash Now Banned

 

15 Sept 06

New Pilot-SAR Guy Suits Provide Better Contact, Safer Rescues? (Thanks to Kaptain Kosmo for this!)

 

11 Sept 06

Cormorant crash investigation focuses on human error: flight report - CF Aircraft Occurance Summary (.pdf) - HTML

 

27 Aug 06

Draft Report on Crash Investigation in Circulation - More

 

11 Aug 06

Crash Victims to be Remembered at Seamen’s Memorial Service

 

1 Aug 06

CF Board of Inquiry Formed to Look Into Crash - Background

 

24 Jul 06

Internal Memo - NOTHING Ruled Out in Investigation

 

22 Jul 06

Remembering One of the Fallen

 

20 Jul 06

Investigators Rule Out Mechanical Problems - More - more

 

19 Jul 06

More on Memorial Service

 

Cormorants Back at Work

 

18 Jul 06

Big Turnout for Memorial

 

17 Jul 06

Families Grieve, Question Military, Prepare for Memorial Svc

 

15 Jul 06

Voice recorder sent to Ottawa for analysis - Investigation Begins - Chopper Arrives in HFX for Inspection

 

Squadron Mates Fell the Pain, Even While Investigating

 

'Rescue duty extracts high price'

 

Already, the Second Guessing Begins....

 

14 Jul 06

More Questions... - More - more

 

Not First Chopper Death in One Family

 

13 Jul 06

Initial Reports - More - more - more - Officials Puzzled by Accident

 

Training Flights on Hold

 

CFB Greenwood Mourns

 

Def Minister Statement on Crash

 

413 Transport and Rescue Squadron

 

CH-149 Cormorant