Impact of ultralight crash near Fredericton last year ‘not survivable’: safety board

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says the interaction of an ultralight level clang past twelvemonth northwest of Fredericton was “not survivable.”

The information committee released its uncovering contiguous connected the clang that occurred connected July 19, 2024, involving the tiny craft with a azygous idiosyncratic connected board, who was killed.

It says the aircraft’s electrical motor, which came from a motorcycle, was susceptible of producing up to 52 kilowatts of powerfulness and had a artillery beingness of astir 70 minutes.

The study says a bolt was recovered astatine the wreckage tract — successful a cornfield 25 kilometres northwest of Fredericton — but the matching seed was missing, perchance making it hard to power the aircraft.

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The ultralight crashed astir 45 minutes aft the aviator took disconnected astatine 10:42 a.m. from Weyman Airpark.

The information committee says ultralights are operated without a certificate of airworthiness, meaning that the design, construction, and attraction are not taxable to oversight by Transport Canada.

It is the owner’s work to support the craft truthful that it is harmless for flight, the bureau says, adding that ultralight pilots indispensable deterioration a helmet — extortion that the aviator successful the clang was not equipped with.

“The craft impacted terrain successful a steep nose-down attitude. From the starring borderline of the wings forward, the craft was crushed,” the study says. “The interaction was not survivable.”

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Feb. 5, 2025.