Two pilots killed: No recorders on aircraft that crashed near Calgary
EDMONTON — Students resumed pilot training at Calgary’s Mount Royal University flying school on Monday as an investigator said that determining what caused a plane crash that killed two experienced instructors will be challenging.
Pilot Jeffrey Bird and co-pilot Reynold Johnson died Feb. 13 when their twin-engine P2006T Tecnam aircraft went down northwest of Calgary.
Fred Burow of the Transportation Safety Board said the plane did not break up in the air. Its major parts were destroyed in the crash and the resulting fire.
Burow said experts are still gathering and analyzing information about the aircraft and the pilots, but the plane wasn’t carrying — nor was it required to carry — a cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder.