The Transportation Safety Board says a helicopter pilot killed in a crash in British Columbia almost two years ago was sick in the days leading up to the accident and reported “shivering uncontrollably” before the aircraft went down.
The board’s report on the November 2022 crash says the helicopter was on a surveying flight near Kitsault, B.C., in the province’s northwest when the pilot reported being “unwell” about an hour and a half after takeoff.
The report says the helicopter crashed into a “heavily forested mountainside,” killing the pilot and destroying the aircraft.
The safety board says investigators couldn’t “determine the full context” of the fatal crash because the helicopter did not have flight data recording equipment that captures images and audio from aircraft cockpits.
The report says the Airbus helicopter was fitted with a tracking unit, but the data it records was “too sparse” to figure out the aircraft’s …