MONTREAL – Two people are dead and three are injured after in a Beaver float plane crashed in Quebec this weekend – the second such crash in the province in eight days – this time in James Bay.
Provincial police Sgt. Richard Gagne said Sunday morning the three surviving passengers, tourists on a fishing trip, have been transported to a Montreal hospital.
Their Beaver DHC-2 float plane crashed around 11 a.m. Saturday morning, about a kilometre west of an airport in Radisson, Que., which is about 1,300 kilometres northwest of Montreal.
Gagne confirmed the victims are Michael Robinson from Ontario and the pilot, Glen Arsenault, from Val d’Or, Que.
Police and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada are investigating.
The crash happened in good weather, Gagne said, unlike another crash on July 16 in Chute des Passes, 420 kilometres north of Quebec City, when a six-seater De Havilland Beaver, operated by Air Saguenay, crashed in thick fog, leaving four people dead and one man with severe burns.
Funerals for Louis Bernier, 13, and his father, Michel Bernier, a 49-year-old engineer, were held Saturday. Michel Bernier’s uncle, Rejean Bernier, and pilot Gabriel Boivin also died in the crash. The five Berniers were on their way home from a six-day fishing trip in the Lac St. Jean region.
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