The BC Coroners Service has released 19 recommendations aimed at preventing fatal accidents involving small commercial seaplanes along the B.C. coast.
The recommendations are from a Coroners Service Death Review Panel, which brought together experts from the coastal aviation industry and safety professionals to examine systemic issues involved in float-plane crashes and how they might be addressed.
The panel examined four crashes along the coast between 2005 and 2009 that resulted in 23 deaths in total.
Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe said, "These recommendations should be considered very seriously by the agencies to which they're directed.
"They are the result of open and frank discussion and review by a diverse blue-ribbon panel of experts in the field, and they are based on an aggregate review of several crashes, not a single incident."
Most of the recommendations are directed at improved regulation of the industry, with others addressing such issues as plane design, weather forecasting and record keeping.
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