Chartered plane crashes in northern Canada, killing baby

USPA News - A chartered plane carrying nine people crashed Saturday evening while attempting to land at an airport in northern Canada, killing a baby and injuring the other people on board, police said on Sunday. The cause was not immediately known.

The accident happened at around 6:13 p.m. local time on Saturday when the Fairchild Metro 3/23 twin-engine turboprop aircraft went down near the end of the runway at the airport in Sanikiluaq, a small town on the north coast of Flaherty Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. The small passenger aircraft belonged to Winnipeg-based regional airliner Perimeter Aviation LP but had been chartered by Kivalliq Air, which is a division of Keewatin Air. The aircraft was carrying a total of nine people at the time of the crash, including seven passengers, a pilot and a co-pilot. Sergeant Greg Sutherland, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), confirmed an unidentified six-month-old child was killed in the accident. "All other passengers and crew were treated and or are continuing to be treated for non-life threatening injuries," he added. It was not immediately known what caused Saturday`s accident, which is being investigated by the Nunavut Coroner`s Office, the RCMP, and the Canadian Transportation Safety Board (TSB). Julie Leroux, a TSB spokeswoman, said it was still considering whether its investigators would be deployed to the remote crash site.