What happened
A flight traveling from Lac-du-Bonnet toward Norway House ended in a fatal accident when the aircraft went down in a muskeg area situated north of Berens River. The plane was transporting six employees of the Manitoba Government along with the pilot at the time of the incident.
During the en route phase of the flight, the pilot lost control of the single-engine aircraft. The impact occurred in a remote wetland region, and there were no survivors from the crash. All seven people on board, including the pilot and the six passengers, were killed in the accident.
Findings
The primary factor identified in the sequence of events was that the pilot lost control of the airplane while in flight.