Sun, Aug 06, 2006
3 People Lost In Collision
A Canadian Mid-Air has resulted in the deaths of three pilots,
NW of Toronto, Ontario. The accident involved a Cessna 172 from the
Brampton Flying Club and a Cessna 182 from nearby Burlington
Airport. Among the dead are a flight instructor and his student.
The TSB has undertaken an investigation.
ID'd as having been lost in this tragedy are Ryan Sumere, 28,
and Vinoo Abraham, 26, both of Mississauga and David Norton, 57, of
Burlington, Ontario.
The VFR collision took place over a nearby farm at approximately
1240 local time, Friday. Both aircraft came down less than a mile
apart.
TSB Investigator Donald Enns told local media that the aircraft
from the flying club was on a training exercise, while the Cessna
182 was privately owned and based out of the airport. Enns noted
that mid-air collisions are extremely rare and the last one he
remembers occurred about five years before. "There was absolutely
nothing to restrict your vision," Enns said. "I don't know the
directions these guys were flying. I don't know what they're visual
reference was going to be from one to the other. I don't know what
they were doing."
Enns also reported
that, "If they were heading straight toward each other, each should
have pulled to the right — as cars do — to avoid each
other... Assuming everything else is equal, you're going to usually
make a turn to the right. But things are not like they are on a
highway. One airplane might be high, one airplane might be low.
They might not be on a direct head-on course. If you see an
airplane coming at you from above and to the right, your automatic
reaction is going to be to deviate left and down. We'll be looking
at radar tapes and see if we can track these two airplanes. You
never rule anything out at this point in the game."
No injuries were reported to anyone on the ground.
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