The fatal flight took off from Dryden, Ont.  on April 29 at 9:02 p.m. and reported overdue at her destination in Marathon, Ont.  at 1:39 am  on April 30.  The wreckage was found soon after.
“The aircraft had impacted the ground in a wooded area in the hours of darkness. The pilot and 3 passengers were fatally injured. The aircraft was destroyed,” said a crash report issued by the TSB on Wednesday.
“The airframe disintegrated in a manner consistent with wheel movement, and both fuel cells ruptured,” the report later adds.
The pilot received his commercial license in 2019 but had not completed the required number of night flights in the six months before the crash.  In addition, the TSB found that he was not certified to fly in what are called “instrument meteorological conditions”.
The report explains that this means conditions in which a pilot cannot rely on visual cues alone for navigation.  Although not all night flights require this certification, the TSB concluded that it did because of the cloud cover and remote location.
The report also found that the plane was 170 pounds overweight.
An image provided by the eth Transportation Safety Board shows the location of a fatal plane crash in April 2022. 
Among the dead was Jean Carl Larkamp.  News of the crash came days after he was placed second highest on Canada’s Be on Lookout’s top 25 fugitives list and a $100,000 reward was offered for any information leading to his capture.
Larkamp was wanted in connection with the shooting death of gangster Jimmy Sandhu, Abbotsford, BC.  Authorities said Sandhu was killed in Thailand on February 5, and a subsequent investigation in that country found he had been targeted by two Canadian men who flew home days after the killing.
Thai police eventually charged Lahrkamp and a second suspect, Mathew Dupre, with murder.  Dupre was arrested in Alberta in February and remains in custody pending extradition proceedings.
Another passenger on the plane was Duncan Howard Bailey.  The Canadian Press revealed that a warrant was issued for Bailey on April 26 – the same day Larkamp was placed on the BOLO list.
Bailey’s indictment shows he was charged along with two other men with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder in an attack on Mir Aali Hussain on October 6, 2020.
Hussain was killed in a separate shooting nearly a year later, BC’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said.
Bailey’s last court appearance in Vancouver was on April 4 and the arrest warrant was for an unspecified violation of his parole conditions.
The crash has raised questions about how and why two men from B.C.  wanted in connection with assassination plots ended up in the same small plane in a remote area of ​​Ontario.  At the time, BC’s anti-gang unit said it was investigating their connection.
The other two men on the flight have been identified as Abhinav Handa and Hankun Kong, both of Richmond, BC Neither has a history of criminal charges, according to publicly available online records.
With files from Alyse Kotyk of CTV News Vancouver and The Canadian Press