Photo: Following Nunavut air crash, TSB recommends child restraint devices

Child safety on commercial aircraft: that’s the big theme that emerges from the Transportation Safety Board’s investigation report into a Dec. 22, 2012 crash near Sanikiluaq that killed six-month-old Isaac Appaqaq and seriously injured the pilot and co-pilot. The Fairchild Metro 3 turboprop aircraft, operated by Perimeter Aviation, came in too high, too steep, and overshot the runway, the TSB said. The safety board recommends two things: that commercial airlines collect data on the number of infants and young children they carry, and that Transport Canada work with industry to develop mandatory child restraint systems on commercial aircraft in Canada. Read more later on Nunatsiaqonline.ca. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TSB)