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TSB # A 16/98

(Hull, Que. 7-12-98) - Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) are traveling to the site of an aircraft accident that occurred near Baie-Comeau, Quebec, earlier today. The accident involved a Britten-Norman Islander aircraft operated by Air Satellite Inc.

Under the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act, the TSB has the exclusive jurisdiction to investigate this occurrence in order to make findings as to its causes and contributing factors.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is an independent agency operating under its own Act of Parliament. Its sole aim is the advancement of transportation safety. It is not the function of the Board to assign fault or determine civil or criminal liability.

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