An inquest will be held into the April 15 death of Julien Tologanak, seen in a photo from his Facebook profile. (Facebook)

Nunavut's chief coroner has called an inquest into the death of a Nunavut man who leaped to his death from an airplane that was en route from Yellowknife to Cambridge Bay.

Coroner Tim Neily confirmed to CBC News on Friday that the inquest will begin Dec. 7 in Cambridge Bay.

The inquest will look into the death of Julien Tologanak, 20, who forced his way out of a King Air 200 turboprop on April 15, while the aircraft was flying at an altitude of 7,000 metres.

At the time of the incident, the Adlair Aviation charter flight from Yellowknife was about 180 kilometres away from Tologanak's hometown of Cambridge Bay, in western Nunavut.

It was not made clear how Tologanak got the door open on the aircraft.

Last month, a lawyer for Tologanak's family told CBC News they want more answers about the events leading up to Tologanak's death.

Yellowknife RCMP have said that prior to Tologanak's boarding the plane, police found the man in a local hotel, where he appeared depressed and in need of medical attention.

Police took Tologanak to Stanton Territorial Hospital for an assessment before he was put on the Adlair Aviation flight home to Cambridge Bay.

"Something like this is fortunately quite rare, but frankly from what we know and what we're learning, should never have happened in the first place," Steven Cooper, the lawyer for Tologanak's family, told CBC News on Friday.

"This ultimately, I expect, is going to be more about the mental health system than it is about Julien's circumstances."