Wednesday, August 5, 1959

THE WILLIAMS

LAKE TRIBUNE

AERIAL PICTURES
NEAR LAST WEEK'S
PLANE CRASH

Picture at left was taken
while flying over the
southern tip of French
Mountain looking south-
west. Don Patchett’s
Plane had already nego-
tiated the high snow-
capped mountains seen
here. Below is a view of
one of the peaks on the
jong, hogsback of
French Mountain. This
picture was taken look-
ing towards the western
slopes on which the
Plane crashed at about
the 5,000 ‘foot
Peak is about

level.
7,500 feet.

| Weather jonditions

It may never be
private plane owned

own exactly what caused the
y Donald Patchett to crash

occupants, but indi
weather conditions,

lumber
director,

company
Quesnel

Neville,
Supply Limited.

The wreckage of the

white plane was first
about noon Wednesday by a
military plane engagediin the
search. They radioed to air-
sea search and“ rescye who
dropped three parachutists from
a Dakota.
The parachutists radioed to
the Dakota confirming the
worst suspicions that all the
occupants were dead in the
wreckage. |
A helicopter way quickly
rushed to the scenejthe same
afternoon and‘ the bjdies were
akea out and tran)ported to
Kamloops. |

The following day Chilcotin
Airways Limited, wlo had vol-
unteered both theirplanes dur-
ing the three-day Jeareh, sent

out pilots Dave Whelan and
Clarence Moore to view the
wreckage. The firm's manager,

Rudy Johnson, felt that it would
of value to both men to inspect
what a wreck looked like from
the air and give them some in-
dication of the type of place
where an aircraft might crash

searchers felt it must have been
a miracle for the military plane
to have spotted the downed air-
craft as they did the previous
day.

Querying the weather, The
Tribune found out from Dog
Creek Airport that heavy cloud
Probably blinded the pilot as he
tried to find his way down from
the higher level at which he
must have been flying to the
south of French Mountain. The
mountain is a long hogsback
type ridge running north and
south and just 10 minutes’ fiy-
ing time from Dog Creek.

South of the mountain are
very high snow-capped mountain
ranges which Patchett had ob-
viously managed to negotiate.
He crashed at about 5,000 feet

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well below the top of French
Mountain. It is likely that the
time was between 8:0 and 9 a.m.
Monday. At 8 a.m. Dog Creek
showed there to be more than
five-tenths cloud at 5,170 feet.
At 8:10 a.m. the cloud had
dropped to 4,770 feet. By nine
it was down to 4,170 feet.

Thus indications point to-
wards the possibility that the
pilot was coming down through
thicker clouds and was still in
clouds when his aircraft ran
straight into the lower slopes of
French Mountain.

Department of Transport
officials went in to inspect the
wreckage Sunday, but their find-
ings have not yet been dis-
closed.

under difficult cir ces.
They were accompanied by
Tribune staffer Fred Water-
house.

The Tri-Pacer circled the area
for a long time from heights of
7,000 feet down to tree-top level
but the wreck could not be
found. It seemed impossible to
the searchers that no sign could
be seen on such a clear day but
the area is honeycombed with
ravines, covered with dense for-
est growth and there are vir-
ually no distinguishing marks
for accurate map reading. It
was known that the wreck was
lying in a ravine and the

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