While the pilot held an appropriate licence, obtained in 2006, the report concluded that neither he nor the passenger should have been in the air that day. "Weather forecasts indicated unfavourable conditions, making it difficult to meet the minimum requirements for a VFR flight however, the pilot decided to take off and proceed," the report said. The report says the pilot decided to take off despite knowing about the poor conditions, likely due to what the TSB calls "an unconscious cognitive bias" and pressure to complete the job on time. The flight was bound by visual flight rules, or VFR, which state the pilot should be able to keep "visual reference to the surface" and have visibility of at least three miles. The weather forced the pilot to fly at an altitude of 500 feet above sea level rather than the planned 1,200 feet, giving him little time to react when something went wrong. "Given the amount of ice that was quite likely in the carburetor when the carburetor heat was turned on, the melted ice entered the engine causing an additional loss of power," the report read. While the report found no signs of mechanical engine failure in the plane, it concluded that rainy and overcast weather conditions were favourable to ice building up in the plane's carburetor, forcing the pilot to fly at a lower altitude than originally planned. The badly injured pilot managed to escape the wreckage but was unable to rescue the passenger, who remained trapped inside. "A post-impact fire broke out just under a minute after impact." "The aircraft's left wing grazed some treetops, the aircraft began to cartwheel, and then it struck the ground," the report said. He then tried to land on nearby Pierre-Dupuy Avenue, with tragic results. The pilot prepared for an emergency landing on the Concorde Bridge, only to find it full of concrete construction barriers. Lawrence River when the engine first began to sputter. Investigators said the plane was flying over the St. The TSB said in its report that neither the pilot, who survived, nor the passenger, who did not, should have been in the plane that day.
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