Sadness

The loss of some fellow aviators always saddens me. My sincerest condolences to the Families and friends of these two pilots, and to the people at Navair.

Courier plane crash kills 2

Both pilots were killed when a twin-engine charter courier plane crashed less than a minute after takeoff from the Terrace airport on Tuesday evening.

Northwest Regional Airport manager Laurie Brown says the Nav Air Charters plane went down in a wooded area south of the airport shortly after 6:30 p.m.

"My staff noticed a fireball just off the end of the runway," he said.

"When I arrived at the airport about 10 minutes later the RCMP, the Terrace Fire Department and most of the responding agencies were already on the site and being escorted down to the crash scene."

The firefighters were able to put out the flames, but could not rescue the two people on board.

Transportation Safety Board investigators have been called in to investigate. Brown says that while the weather was overcast, visibility was about 15 kilometres when the plane went down.

The aircraft was on a regular flight to Vancouver

The names of the pilots have not been released.

God speed....