Military says January training plane crash, was during aerobatics
MOOSE JAW, Sask. — An initial report into the crash of a training plane says the instructor and student pilot had to eject after getting into trouble practising basic aerobatics.
Both Royal Canadian Air Force officers survived the Jan. 27 bailout in southern Saskatchewan, but the CT-156 Harvard II aircraft was destroyed.
The Department of National Defence report says the plane lost power as the student pilot was pulling out of a manoeuvre and the instructor took over.
The instructor couldn’t get the plane to operate normally again, despite following checklists the military uses for aircraft problems.