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Ontario’s air ambulance service, Ornge, has been charged with 17 offences related to last May’s fatal helicopter crash in Northern Ontario that killed four company employees. Court documents show that the charges filed are all listed as offences under the Canadian Labour Code.
A Sikorsky S-76A helicopter departed soon after midnight on May 31, 2013, from the Moosonee airport near James Bay. Transport Canada reportedly had contact with the helicopter for only 15 minutes after its take-off, after which the helicopter dreadfully crashed almost one nautical mile northeast of the airport. The early-morning accident resulted in immediate death of Four Ornge employees. The helicopter was destined to a remote First Nation community, Attawapiskat, which was almost an hour away. According to the court documents, Ornge allegedly “failed to ensure the health and safety of its employees … by permitting pilots to fly the S-76A helicopter without adequate training in operation of that specific aircraft.”
In addition to that, the document alleged that the company failed to ensure employee safety by failing “to provide adequate supervision for daily flight activities at Moosonee,” permitting “an aircraft to be flown by a pilot with insufficient experience in night operation,” and “failing to provide pilots with a means to enable them to maintain visual reference while operating at night.” Whereas, the air ambulance company has also been charged with allegedly failing to “ensure the supervisors and managers had knowledge of the Canada Labour Code Part II.”
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