VANCOUVER - A brief loss of control is the suspected cause of a deadly plane crash last October just outside Vancouver International Airport.
The Transportation Safety Board says the pilot aboard the ill-fated passenger plane lost control less than 100 metres off the ground and by the time he righted the plane, it was too late.
Both pilots died and several of the seven passengers were hurt when the twin-engine plane slammed into a roadway near the airport and burst into flames.
The safety board's Bill Yearwood says the plane was returning to the airport because of an oil leak, but investigators don't believe there was anything mechanically wrong with the Beechcraft King Air 100 plane.
Yearwood says one man had paid attention to the passenger briefing about escaping a plane and after several attempts, was able to opened a jammed door.
Yearwood met with several passengers Wednesday and says all are recovering from their injuries, although one man has undergone several surgeries.
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