Downed Plane Located

Sunday, August 03, 2008 05:27 PM

Port Hardy, B.C. – Search and Rescue have located a plane that crashed on Vancouver Island earlier today.

The Grumman Goose, ( similar to one in photo at right) sea plane took off from the Port Hardy Airport this morning at 7:08 , on route to Chamiss Bay near Kyuquot Inlet. There were seven occupants on board including the pilot.

At about 11:35am Port Hardy RCMP were notified a plane had crash 20 miles West of Port Hardy.

Comox RCC had intermittent contact with a passenger of the plane via cell phone(voice) and text messaging. The E.L.T. locator is believed to have been disabled upon impact.

The plane was located around 4:30 this afternoon. S.A.R.T.E.C. have been deployed and are on scene. RCMP Air Services (helicopter) are taking Port Hardy RCMP members to the scene.

Transport Canada and the Transport Safety Board have been notified of the incident. The names of the passengers will not be released at this time in respect of their families and an ongoing investigation.

Plane was chartered by C-Span. Plane was owned by Pacific Coastal.

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Posted on Sunday, August 03, 2008 05:27 PM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: bohemian on August 3 2008 6:04 PM

Have they determined for sure there were no survivors. Only implied by above.

Posted by: bohemian on August 3 2008 8:48 PM

2 survivors (Globe & Mail):

http://tinyurl.com/6d3ely

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on August 3 2008 10:32 PM

Ben Ginter used to own a plane like that. He had in hangered at PG Airport in the early 1970's. I think it was called a Widgen. Bill Hall used to fly it for Ginter.

Not many of these planes left anymore.

Posted by: Eagleone on August 4 2008 1:46 AM

I'd love to own one of those. Do the fly in tours to all the mountain lakes in the North Rockies or something....

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on August 4 2008 8:00 AM

For the cost of these old birds you are better off buying something newer. Those twin radials are not very fuel efficient and the planes are expensive to run now that parts are scarce.

The dream machine would be the Cessna Caravan on amphibious floats. The RCMP have one.