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The pilot of a small, commercially registered helicopter is dead after the aircraft crashed on its way to an airport in southern New Brunswick on Saturday, officials confirmed.
Helicopter left Fredericton for Sussex on Saturday afternoon
The Canadian Press
· Posted: Mar 29, 2026 2:58 PM EDT | Last Updated: 27 minutes ago
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A helicopter pilot died Saturday in a flight that left from Fredericton. (Silas Brown/CBC)
The pilot of a small, commercially registered helicopter is dead after the aircraft crashed on its way to an airport in southern New Brunswick on Saturday, officials confirmed.
The Robinson R-44 helicopter was travelling from Fredericton to the airport in Sussex, N.B., which is about 80 kilometres northeast of Saint John, RCMP Sgt. Pierre-Luc Hache said in an interview Sunday.
The aircraft never arrived.
The helicopter took off at about 3 p.m. local time on Saturday from the Fredericton International Airport, said a statement Sunday from Hugo Fontaine, spokesperson with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
It was a “visual flight rules” trip, in which pilots navigate based on what they can see outside the cockpit, Fontaine said.
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