GA ulykke i Ontario - Curt Lewis

Texas family of 5, Canadian couple killed in Ontario plane crash

 

A Texas pilot, his wife and three children - along with a Canadian couple - died when their plane crashed in Ontario this week, according to a new report.

 

Pilot Otabek Oblokulov, along with his wife and kids - ages 3, 11 and 15 - all of Houston, were killed when their Piper PA-32 went down in the city of Kingston Wednesday evening, friends of the victims told CBC News.

 

Another couple, Bobomurod Nabiev and his wife, who live in the Toronto area but are originally from Uzbekistan, also died on board, according to the report.

 

There is "no indication" of any survivors, Kingston Police Const. Ash Gutheinz said Thursday.

 

The small aircraft was headed to Quebec City from Buttonville Municipal Airport in Markham, Ontario, the outlet reported.

 

But at some point, it changed course to Kingston, and crashed a few miles north of the city's airport around 5 p.m., Canada's Transportation Safety Board confirmed, according to the report.

 

The plane appeared to have come down on a steep incline, TSB investigator Ken Webster said at a Thursday evening news conference.

 

The plane was registered in the United States, so the National Transportation Safety Board will coordinate with Canadian authorities to investigate the cause of the crash, CBC News reported.

 

Authorities will probe factors including weather, maintenance, pilot training and communications with air traffic control, Canadian TSB spokesperson Chris Krepski told the network.

 

Environment Canada had warned of winds gusting up to nearly 50 mph that night.

 

While the conditions weren't as severe as expected, the weather was certainly "blustery," Gutheinz said.

 

Anson Air, a Sugar Land, Texas-based aviation school, had just congratulated Oblokulov on his first aircraft in March.

 

"Congratulations to Otabek Oblokulov on his first airplane, this beautiful Cherokee 6 260 we helped him acquire!" the school posted to Facebook, along with a photo of the pilot smiling widely with the plane in the background.