Claims extracted
16
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
19%
3 of 16 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
64/100
Toronto Star's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
1
Other
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1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has recovered part of Heartbeat 104, the Latitude Air Ambulance aircraft that crashed last month, resulting in the death of six people, including four Canadian crew members.
asserted
that → recover → members
The Canadian TSB has been leading the investigation and working with their U.S. counterparts and Massachusetts authorities to recover the plane and investigate why it went down.
asserted
it → lead → plane
“The TSB, working in co-ordination with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Coast Guard, has recovered the upper third of the occurrence aircraft’s cockpit, as well as the cockpit voice recorder.
asserted
TSB → work → cockpit
Both will be transported to TSB’s Engineering Laboratory in Ottawa for further examination,” said a statement issued by the organization on Monday morning.
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statement → transport → morning
The tragic flight left Bermuda at 11:42 p.m. Oct. 3, and reported apparent problems at 12:46 a.m. Oct. 4 as it approached Nantucket, telling air traffic control they were “coming in blind,” according to audio posted online.
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they → leave → audio
“Roger, you said you’re coming in blind, is that what you said?” a New York-based air traffic controller asks, according to recordings from the website liveatc.net.
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controller → say → website
“Are you declaring an emergency or no?”
asserted
you → declare → emergency
The crew response is inaudible but the controller replies: “You declared an emergency and I missed the last part,” adding the audio was “broken up.”
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audio → reply → part
After the controller tries and fails to get a response, he asks the pilot of another plane “to see if you can see an aircraft out there.”
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you → try → aircraft
After its departure from Bermuda, Flight Aware data shows the plane climbing for 10 minutes to 24,000 feet, at 11:51 p.m., and remaining at that altitude until 1:04 a.m.
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plane → show → a.m.
The jet then apparently descends over several minutes to 11,000 feet and continues there until it disappears.
asserted
it → descend → feet
After the U.S. Coast Guard called off the search and rescue, which took days and spanned over 60,000 square miles, or about 155,400 square kilometres, because the flight company was based in Canada, the TSB were put in charge of the investigation.
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TSB → call → investigation
At the start of the investigation, Craig Johnston, the TSB’s director of air investigations, told the Star that they were looking for hire a boat for the investigation.
“Given the time of year, the sea state and the sea conditions are not great, we need a fairly large vessel to handle the ocean,” Johnston said.
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Johnston → tell → ocean
“Ideally, we want to get out sooner rather than later.
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we → want → ?
The evidence is perishable and things degrade in salt water, so we always like to find it as soon as we can.”
The goal of the investigation was to find the jet’s black boxes — the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder — and now the lateral is in the hands of officials, who may be able to discover exactly what happened in the flight’s final minutes.
The crew have been identified as pilots Philip Gregory Childerhose and Thomas Henry Farquhar, and medical staff Sarah Jane Paton and Jolene Beth Weir, all based in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
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crew → degrade → Area
The two passengers they were escorting were Marilyn Lavonne Bean, 66, and her 41-year-old son, Sergio Wayne Lottimore, a senior vice president with a Bermudian insurance firm.
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Bean → escort → firm
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