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Editor: James T. Crouse
Profession: Aviation Accident Attorney

Category: Plane Crashes

The coroner's report following a single-engine plane crash in which three were killed, calls for tougher safety standards - requiring terrain awareness and warning systems on board. This plea mirrors numerous recommendations by the Transportation and Safety Board earlier this year.

In January 2006, a plane carrying seven passengers crashed a Sonicblue Airways single-engine Cessna 208B Caravan into trees just short of a logging road in Canada, killing the pilot, one passenger, and a three year old boy. The reports urge Transport Canada to adopt the tougher standards for single-engine planes on instrument flight rules over mountainous territory. Single-engine planes are at risk when the pilot can't see where the plane is flying because they don't have the second engine to keep them airborne.

Among other recommendations, the coroner asked that child restraint in vehicles be applied to children when they fly on aircraft - referring to a crash in 2007 where a three year old survived because of an approved car seat when the two adults died. Perhaps this three-year-old would have survived if he had been properly restrained.