No new details about a plane crash in the Blow me Down mountains on Friday

A statement from Fisheries and Oceans Canada to Bayfm News yesterday reads: during a Fisheries and Oceans Canada scientific mission to survey marine mammals, a chartered aircraft crashed on the west coast of Newfoundland.

No other details have been released regarding a fatal plane crash in the Blow Me Down Mountains on Friday although the Transportation Safety Board has begun an investigation. There’s no word yet as to what caused the Cessna to crash. A 24 year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene. A 26-year-old male was rushed to Western Memorial Regional Hospital for treatment of critical injuries, and two women, ages 28 and 23, are being treated for moderate injuries.  The aircraft was contracted out of Quebec and all four people on board were also from Quebec and were in the area on a scientific mission.  A statement from Fisheries and Oceans Canada to Bayfm News yesterday reads: during a Fisheries and Oceans Canada scientific mission to survey marine mammals, a chartered aircraft crashed on the west coast of Newfoundland. Three Fisheries and Oceans Canada employees, working at the Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, in the Quebec region, and the pilot, were aboard the chartered aircraft. It is with deep sadness that the department has learned that one employee died as a result of the crash. Two other employees were also injured. Aerial surveillance flights planned for this mission have been suspended.