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Two of four Lost in Brenda Mines Crash

What: Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche en route from Pentiction to Boundary Bay
Where: Brenda Mines, 22 kilometres west of Peachland Canada
When: August 13, 2012
Who: 4 aboard, 2 fatalities
Why: The plane was off course when it crashed at 5 p.m. local time near Brenda Mines. One person died on the scene. Three passengers were hospitalized in Kelowna and Kamloops hospital, where one later died.

A Cormorant helicopter responded to the emergency beacon and did a flyby over the wreckage before rescuers parachuted in. BC Air Ambulance Service transported injured to the hospital; one was flown to Royal Inland Hospital.

The first victim was identified as Dallas Smith; the second victim to succumb to injuries was Lauren Sewell, 24. Smith was her boyfriend. The plane ride was a birthday present from Sewell to Smith.
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