Canadian Forces Pilots Not Warned About Autopilot Before Deadly Cyclone Crash in 2020

Canadian Forces members and EDT Hercules personnel inspect recovered parts of the helicopter Stalker 22 during recovery operations for the aircraft in the Mediterranean Sea on May 31, 2020. The Canadian Press/HO-Department of National Defence, Cdr Robert Watt

HALIFAX—As a pilot guided one of Canada’s navy helicopters up into a tight turn, neither his training nor cockpit indicators warned of how a built-in autopilot would take control and plunge the Cyclone into the Ionian Sea, a military report has concluded.

All six Canadian Forces members on board died in the crash on April 29, 2020.