Communiqués

TSB # A 09/99

(Hull, Quebec, 13 April 1999) - Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) are travelling to the site of an aircraft accident that occurred at Gaspé, Quebec, earlier today. The accident involved a Cessna 335 aircraft operated by Myrand Aviation.

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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