Helicopter on training flight crashes in Whitehorse with two onboard
WHITEHORSE - A team with Canada's Transportation Safety Board is on its way to Whitehorse to investigate a helicopter crash.
Spokesman Liam MacDonald says the Airbus AS350B was on a training flight with two people onboard when it crashed around 3 p.m. on Friday.
MacDonald says the helicopter, operated by Horizon Helicopters, flew out of the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport and crashed about 10 kilometres east of the airport.
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MacDonald would not say whether the two people onboard survived the crash, and neither RCMP nor the company immediately responded to a request for information.
A statement from the safety board says its team will gather information and assess what happened.
It says it is not the function of the board to assign fault or determine civil or criminal liability.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 3, 2025
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