Sault Sainte Marie - Sault Sainte Marie

On September 25, 2013 at 02:00 PM, Sault Sainte Marie - Sault Sainte Marie experienced a crash involving Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, operated by Federal Express - FedEx, with the event recorded near Hudson Bay Nunavut.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

1 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

On behalf of Morningstar Air Express, the pilot departed Sault Sainte Marie Airport, south Ontario, in the morning, for a local training flight. For unknown reasons, the pilot did not maintain any radio contact with his base or ATC and continued to the north for about 1,200 km when the aircraft crashed in unknown circumstances in the Hudson Bay, some 500 km east of Churchill, Manitoba. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot was killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration C-FEXV, MSN 208B-0482, year of manufacture 1995.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 59.9147°, -86.8457°.