SASKATOON – A pilot is presumed dead after a Transwest Air DHC3T Turbo Single Otter plane was found partially submerged in a Northwest Territories lake.
On Thursday evening, the pilot took off from Scott Lake Lodge in northern Saskatchewan to pick up a party of passengers at Ivanhoe Lake, Northwest Territories.
The plane was reported late for arrival that night and a search and rescue aircraft was dispatched from Winnipeg.
Early Friday morning, a partially submerged aircraft was spotted in an unnamed lake approximately 40 kilometres northwest of Scott Lake in the Northwest Territories.
At dawn, Transwest Air dispatched a helicopter and two float planes to the crash site and confirmed it to be the missing aircraft.
The pilot, the sole occupant of the plane, has not yet been found.
RCMP assumed control of the scene and started a preliminary investigation.
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