Freight company MK Airlines confirmed yesterday that one of its Ghanaian-registered Boeing 747 cargo planes crashed in Halifax, Canada, killing all six crew members aboard.

“It’s a Boeing 747 jumbo. It was only the crew on board, there were six of them and there were no survivors,” Wisdom Ametepe, managing director of MK Airlines in Ghana, told Reuters. “It’s too early to say what caused the crash. We have to wait for an investigation,” he said. Ametepe said the crew was from Zimbabwe and Britain. He said MK Airlines usually picked up fish in Canada.

“We haven’t had any problems since we’ve been operating (out of Ghana) since 1994,” Ametepe said, when asked about the company’s safety record. Francis Nkansah, senior supervisor at Ghana’s Civil Aviation Authority, confirmed MK Airlines had been operating in Ghana since 1994 and had 16 planes registered in the former British colony.