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6 Lost in Seaplane Crash


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What: Seair Seaplanes De Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver Mk. 1 en route from Tofino to Vancouver
Where: Lyall Harbour, British Columbia, Canada
When: Nov 29 2009 4:10 p.m.
Who: 8 aboard, 6 fatalities
Why: After departing Lyall Harbour on Saturna Island, the flight crashed on departure. Two people—a male pilot and a female passenger— were rescued from the water. Rescuers had a difficult time dealing with near-zero visibility and strong currents

Fatalities included Vancouver doctor Kerry Telford Morrissey and her baby daughter, Sarah, and a California couple Richard Bruce Haskitt, 49, and Cindy Schafer, 44, with a cottage on Saturna, Catherine White-Holman, 55, of Vancouver; and Thomas Gordon Glenn, 60, of White Rock.

TSB investigators supervising the recovery are offering counseling to relatives, and recovery workers.

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