What happened
During a positioning flight traveling from Watson Lake to Desolation Lake, a single-engine aircraft crashed in a remote, forested region. The aircraft was being operated by a single pilot who was the only person on board at the time of the accident. While the aircraft was maintaining a cruising altitude of 5,000 feet, it impacted trees and went down in a hilly area situated roughly 114 km southwest of Watson Lake.
Search efforts located the wreckage of the plane one day after the incident. The impact resulted in one fatality, as the pilot was killed in the crash.
Findings
No specific technical failures or external factors were detailed in the initial report, though the sequence of events indicates the aircraft struck trees while in the cruise phase of flight.