(RED LAKE, ON) – On Sunday, November 10, 2013 at approximately 6:34 p.m. (Central Standard Time) the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was notified that a Bearskin Airlines plane had crashed on the approach to landing at Red Lake airport. The Metro Fairchild 19 passenger plane had departed Sioux Lookout and was scheduled to land in Red Lake.
Members of the OPP Red Lake Detachment including the OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT), as well as members of the Red Lake Fire Department and ambulance responded to the location in the area of the Red Lake airport.
A fifty-year old female from Winnipeg and a twenty-nine year old male from Winnipeg were both transported from the scene by ambulance with non-life threatening injuries.
Five deceased have been confirmed. The two male pilots: twenty-five year old Aniruddh SAWANT from Mississauga and thirty-four year old Peter TRACZUK from Winnipeg, and three passengers: fifty-three year old Anna JOHANNESSON, fifty-three year old Peter STRUK, and sixty-four year old Sharron TAYLOR from Red Lake were all located within the wreckage. Post mortem examinations were completed in Toronto.