Family of late Quebec businessman sues helicopter company in 2019 deadly crash

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· Posted: Mar 28, 2025 3:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

A United States chopper institution is facing a $50-million suit successful the 2019 clang that killed the laminitis of a Quebec greenhouse farming institution and his teenage son.

The property of Stéphane Roy, the precocious laminitis and ex-CEO of Savoura, has launched a suit against Robinson Helicopter Company Inc. successful Quebec Superior Court.

Robinson is the shaper of the R44 chopper that crashed successful Quebec successful July 2019, sidesplitting Roy and his lad Justin Roy Seguin, who were returning from a sportfishing trip.

The downed chopper was recovered successful a wooded country adjacent Lac Valtrie, Que., astir 220 kilometres northwest of Montreal, 14 days aft they were reported missing.

In a study released successful 2021, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada attributed the origin of the crash to main rotor leaf failure. The bureau said 1 of the blades had worn retired implicit clip owed to aggregate adhesive failures.

"The probe determined that a abrupt summation successful these failures apt contributed to importantly reducing the stiffness of the blade, causing terrible vibrations,'' the TSB study read. "The rotational velocity of the main rotor past fell excessively low, preventing the craft from remaining successful flight.''

The suit was initially filed successful California successful July 2021 but Robinson Helicopter sought to person the lawsuit moved to Quebec, a measurement that was affirmed successful January 2025 by the California Court of Appeal.

Daniel Roy, member of Stéphane Roy and executor of the estate, said successful a connection Friday that the household is determined to uncover the implicit information down the deaths.