Plane carrying 4 disappears in B.C.
Written by on August 18th, 2010 in Latest News.
Search-and-rescue aircraft like this CH149 Cormorant rescue helicopter from 19 Wing at Canadian Forces Base Comox conducted the search overnight Tuesday.
(Department of National Defence)
A search is underway in B.C. for a small plane carrying four people that went missing en route to Victoria from Penticton on Tuesday night.
The Piper PA24, a privately owned plane, left Penticton at about 5:10 p.m. PT, but no communication from the aircraft was received and the plane did not appear on radar in the Vancouver area as expected.
The Kamloops Flight Information Centre reported the aircraft missing at about 9:44 p.m., and officials with the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Center in Victoria immediately started a search of the flight path.
A CC 115 Buffalo search-and-rescue aircraft and CH149 Cormorant rescue helicopter from 19 Wing at Canadian Forces Base Comox conducted the search overnight Tuesday. It was expanded with a second helicopter on Wednesday morning.
The air search is being helped by Civil Air Search And Rescue Association aircraft and crews from Penticton.
The names of the missing pilot and passengers have not been released.
Piper PA24 Comanche’s are single-engine, four-seat, low-wing metal aircraft produced from 1957 to 1972.
