Air transportation safety investigation A18W0113
The occurrence
On , a privately operated Kasper Kootenay Wings MS Special Basic Ultralight aircraft was conducting a flight from a private airfield, east of Grande Prairie, Alberta, to John G. Diefenbaker International Airport in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Shortly after takeoff, at an altitude of 500 feet, the aircraft entered a nose down attitude and collided with terrain. The pilot was fatally injured and there was a post-crash fire.