Search underway for small plane missing between Pitt Meadows and Pemberton
Posted June 6, 2016 11:04 am.
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PEMBERTON (NEWS 1130) – Search crews are looking for three people who went missing after the plane they were on disappeared over Indian Arm yesterday.
Greg Menzies with the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre says the single-engine plane was reported overdue at about 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
“The last known radar contact of the overdue aircraft was Indian Arm. Based on that, we are conducting our search patterns up the Sea to Sky Highway — about 10 miles either side of that — until we get new information, when we could be searching somewhere else.”
Menzies tells us SAR members, the RCMP and the Canadian Air Search and Rescue Association are involved in the search.
“We have a CH-149 Cormorant helicopter and a CC-115 buffalo aircraft tasked from 442 squadron in Comox.”
The single-engine plane left Pitt Meadows yesterday morning for the flight to Pemberton and was supposed to have returned to the Lower Mainland by noon.
Two aircraft from CFB Comox searched through the night. Crews will continue to look today until it gets dark.
