Saskatchewan grounds their 3 Turbo Commander 690 firefighting aircraft, after the same model crash in NWT kills 3 crew.
Just when we really need them. Bird Dog 104 airplane (manages the fire response) went down in the NWT, killing all 3 crew members in June.
The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says it is temporarily grounding three of its aircraft pending a comprehensive safety review.
The three Turbo Commander 690s are known as bird dog aircraft and are used to guide tankers and direct other air traffic over and near a wildfire.
They're the same model as the plane that crashed near Fort Simpson, N.W.T. last month, killing the three people onboard as they responded to a wildfire in the area.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/spsa-bird-dog-planes-grounded-2026-sask-9.7266572#:~:text=In%20the%20Northwest%20Territories%2C%20three,50%20kilometres%20from%20Fort%20Simpson.
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