INVESTIGATORS LOOKING
into a May 25 aircraft crash
which killed six people near
Stewart hope film recovered from
cameras belonging to passengers
will provide some clues.

**There were cameras inside the
wreckage.” Whether they'll ‘be
useful or not, we don't know
yet,” sald Doug Worden of the
National Transportation Safety
Board last weck.

The cameras were recovered
during a brief visit by investi-
gators to the site after the crash,

They may contain pictures of
atmospheric conditions during the
time leading up to the accident.

It’s still far too early to venture
a cause for the accident, said
Worden, But weather in the area
was bad the time of the accident,

The aircraft hasn’t been
removed because of avalanche
dangers and the possibility of
falling ice from above the site.

“We had expert advice from
avalanche technicians and they
said it was not safe to be there,’’
said Worden.

The Blue Ice Flightseeing
Cherokee 6 ran into bad weather
and: struck’ the side of Frank
Mackie glacier.

“Tt was a hard decision to
make, but we did not want to risk
anything happening,” said Wor-
den. '*There’s quite steep terrain
at the site.”

He said attempis to recover the

Large
crowd
attends
service

MORE THAN 500 people at-
tended a memorial service in
Stewart May 31 for local resident
Dave Blais, the pilot of an aircraft
who died with five passengers
when it crashed in bad weather on
a glacier near Stewart May 25.

“T suspect every adult’ in ©

Stewart was there. It was very
crowded,”’ said Stewart mayor
Andy Burton of the service held
in the lown’s high school gym.

“Dave was very well liked in
ihe community. You don’t realize
how much somebody means to
people until something like this
happens,’’ he said.

Blais was taking the five people
— all tourists, including one from
Coquitlam — on a one-hour
sightseeing tour of Slewart-area
glaciers the afternoon of May 25.

The wreckage of his Cherokee
6 aircraft was found in carly eve-
ning of the same day, several
hours afler it was reported miss-
ing,

Blais ran the sight secing trips
under the name of Blue Ice
Flightsceing, He was also a newly
elected Stewart town councillor.

A culogy at the service was
given by Gary Hubbard, a former
mayor of Stewart. A number of
other people make brief com-
ments,

The National Transportation
Safety Board is now investigating
the accident.

Bad weather hampered efforts
to first search the crash site and
then to remove bodies.

Armed forces personnel were
finally able to gain access to the
site to remove bodies three days
after the crash.

Involved in first the search and
then the retrieval were armed
forces search and rescue aircraft
from Vancouver Island, the Cana-
dian Coast: Guard and the U.S,
Coast Guard.

All five passengers killed were
members of a Los Angeles-based
American Travel Tours group.

They are Fleur Pichon of
London, England, Louis Michael
Couvillion of Los Angeles, Brian
Derrick of Port Coquitlam, Chris-
ting McCarthy of Rotorua, New
Zealand, and Jennifer Francis of
Burwood, Australia.

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aircraft will have to wait until
later in the summer,

The Cherokee will likely be air-
lifted off the glacier by helicop-
ter. .

Examining the wreckage will

form a large part of the investiga-

tion into’ the’cause of the crash.

For now, investigators arc pour-
ing over the aircraft’s “records,
those of the company, looking at
weather information and are in-
icrviewing witnesses.

“We've interviewed a number
of people and have witnesses to
the take off of the aircraft,’ said
Worden.

Although the resulis of the
crash were tragic, Captain Dave
Mansi of the Rescue Co-
ordination Centre in Victoria said
the search partion went very well,

‘*The aircraft was found almost
immediately in the hours just
after it was reported overdue,”’
said Mansi.

A Canadian Forces search and
rescue Buffalo aircraft from the
442 Squadron in Comox was in
the area right away and picked up
the signal from the Cherokee’s

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emergency location transmitter,
Two armed forces search and
rescue i¢chnicians were trans-
ferred from the Buffalo to a Ca-
nadian Coast Guard helicopter at
Stewart atid taken to a spot near
the crash.
- They found-two bodies but bad
weather prevented further search-
ing and the technicians were
flown out after spending the night

Victims’ cameras might |
hold clues to air crash

near the crash. —

‘Weather was definitely a fac-
ior. It played havoc out ther. It
was risky and very hazardous fly-
ing,” said Mansi of several days
of cfforts to remove the bedies
before the weather improved.

“‘Had there. been. survivors, il
would definitely have altered the
decisions that were made,’’ the
captain continued.

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