Plane crashes near Golden, B.C., 1 person in hospital
Last Updated: Sunday, October 28, 2007 | 9:03 PM PT
The Canadian Press
One person was taken to hospital after a plane carrying three people crashed Sunday near Golden, B.C.
Capt. Joe Palfy with Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria said an overdue Cessna 172 that left Golden for Edmonton on Sunday afternoon sent an emergency location transmission. Golden is more than 400 kilometres east of Vancouver.
Bad weather at first hampered efforts to locate the aircraft, but a rescue crew was eventually sent in by helicopter.
When the aircraft was located, one person was sent to hospital, while the condition of the other two people on the plane is not yet known.
"We've had very poor communications [with the rescue team], so we don't know the outcome of the other people," Palfy said.
No names have been released and the cause of the crash isn't known.
On Friday, a Piper Malibu flying from Oregon to Alberta crashed about 10 kilometres east of Invermere, B.C., killing all three people aboard.
Earlier in the week, another Cessna 172 went missing en route to Qualicum on Vancouver Island. Pilot Ron Boychuk was flying from Revelstoke, B.C., on Tuesday but his plane never arrived.
His family is pleading for the public to look out for the 61-year-old, who is an experienced outdoorsman.
In addition, 12 aircraft and 26 spotters from the Civil Aviation Search and Rescue Association or CASARA have helped with the search.
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