RCMP have provided an update on the seven people who were on board an Air Saguenay float plane that crashed in Mistastin Lake in Labrador on Monday—but no names have been officially released.
Two Newfoundlanders were on board: a 47-year-old guide whose body has been located, and a 50-year-old guide who remains missing.
Quebec media report that Gilles Morin of Quebec was the pilot of the flight. The 66-year-old is missing. The other four passengers were Americans.
Two of the Americans have been located: a 67-year-old man from New Jersey and a 66-year-old man from Illinois.
The other two—a 40-year-old from Indiana and a 38-year-old from Illinois—are missing.
A team of expert police divers, investigators and search and rescue personnel were ready to attend the scene yesterday, but high winds and heavy rains prevented air travel.
The mission includes specialized equipment, including side scan sonar and boats, all of which must be transported to the site by air.
Tragedy Has Hit the Outdoor Community: Fordham
Outfitting can be seen as a glamourous lifestyle, but there are a lot of hardships that come with it.
That’s according to Barry Fordham of the Newfoundland Federation of Hunters and Anglers, who is offering his condolences to those lost in this week’s plane crash in Labrador.
Fordham says he knew one of the guides well and the tragedy has hit the outfitting and outdoors community very hard.
He was a guide at Eagle River nearly 20 years ago. He compared the latest tragedy to the loss of another guide who drowned at Lake Melville.