Report into Nfld. helicopter crash to be released

Inquiry to be made public Feb. 9

The Transportation Safety Board is set to release its final report into a deadly helicopter crash off Newfoundland in 2009.

The federal agency announced it will release the findings of its probe into the tragedy on Feb. 9.

Cougar Flight 491 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on March 12, 2009, killing 17 of the 18 people aboard.

The Sikorsky S-92A helicopter was carrying workers to the Hibernia and White Rose oilfields, more than 300 kilometres east of St. John's, before it crashed.

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