Cessna 421 C-GMXH Crashes near Tofino BC
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Cessna 421 C-GMXH Crashes near Tofino BC
B.C. plane crash kills father and son from Lethbridge area
Cessna 421 left Abbotsford airport Saturday afternoon and crashed a short distance from Tofino
CBC News Posted: Dec 15, 2013 10:18 AM PT Last Updated: Dec 15, 2013 1:33 PM PT
A father and his 25-year-old son, both from Alberta, are dead after their small plane crashed on an island off the west coast of Vancouver Island on Saturday.
Capt. Ray Jacobson, with the Canadian Coast Guard's Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria, said the wreckage of the plane was found on an island a short distance from Tofino — the plane's intended destination.
RCMP on Vancouver Island said the flight plan that had been filed indicated that the small two-engine Cessna 421 B aircraft left Lethbridge for Tofino, with a stop in Abbotsford, B.C. Saturday afternoon.
The search began shortly after 3:30 p.m. PT Saturday afternoon when the plane, which was near Tofino airport, dropped off radar. No beacon signal was detected and bad weather, poor visibility and the approaching nightfall hampered the effort.
Jacobsen said that at around 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning, the crew aboard a Canadian Forces Cormorant helicopter from Royal Canadian Air Force's 19 Wing Comox spotted the crash site, which is approximately 2,000 feet inland from the south side of Vargas Island.
Four search and rescue technicians were lowered from the helicopter onto the island, and found the wreckage in a treed area at what appeared to be a large impact crater. Jacobsen said it took the technicians an hour to positively identify what was left of the plane as the wreckage of C-GFMX, the missing plane.
"There's nothing left," Jacosben said, adding that the father and son, whose remains were also located, would have died instantly.
The family of the father and son live in an area outside Lethbridge, he said.
The Cessna 421 was registered to an Edmonton company.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...area-1.2465112
Cessna 421 left Abbotsford airport Saturday afternoon and crashed a short distance from Tofino
CBC News Posted: Dec 15, 2013 10:18 AM PT Last Updated: Dec 15, 2013 1:33 PM PT
A father and his 25-year-old son, both from Alberta, are dead after their small plane crashed on an island off the west coast of Vancouver Island on Saturday.
Capt. Ray Jacobson, with the Canadian Coast Guard's Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria, said the wreckage of the plane was found on an island a short distance from Tofino — the plane's intended destination.
RCMP on Vancouver Island said the flight plan that had been filed indicated that the small two-engine Cessna 421 B aircraft left Lethbridge for Tofino, with a stop in Abbotsford, B.C. Saturday afternoon.
The search began shortly after 3:30 p.m. PT Saturday afternoon when the plane, which was near Tofino airport, dropped off radar. No beacon signal was detected and bad weather, poor visibility and the approaching nightfall hampered the effort.
Jacobsen said that at around 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning, the crew aboard a Canadian Forces Cormorant helicopter from Royal Canadian Air Force's 19 Wing Comox spotted the crash site, which is approximately 2,000 feet inland from the south side of Vargas Island.
Four search and rescue technicians were lowered from the helicopter onto the island, and found the wreckage in a treed area at what appeared to be a large impact crater. Jacobsen said it took the technicians an hour to positively identify what was left of the plane as the wreckage of C-GFMX, the missing plane.
"There's nothing left," Jacosben said, adding that the father and son, whose remains were also located, would have died instantly.
The family of the father and son live in an area outside Lethbridge, he said.
The Cessna 421 was registered to an Edmonton company.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...area-1.2465112
