A2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, November 28, 1990 ‘Hawkins family. Vows. to.. continue search for plane TERRACE — The 442nd Search and .Rescue squadron of CFB Comox called off the month-long search for a missing Trans- Provincial Airlines flight Nov..19, but the family of passengers Karen Hawkins and her children, Leanne and Aaron, are going to keep looking for the airplane. The TPA Navajo cight-passenger aitcraft vanished in bad weather on the afternoon of Oct. 22 after taking off from the remote Bron- son Creek airstrip north of Stewart. The flight had originated in Ter- race, picked up Karen Hawkins and her children in Telegraph Creek and flew to Bronson Creek to drop off another passenger, Eddy Frank, who was reporting to work at the Cominco mine site. The airplane, under the control of veteran Terrace. pilot Max Neu- bacher, then took off for Terrace. It disappeared en route to Terrace, and despite an intensive search by seven military aircraft and a num- ber of privately-owned airplanes and helicopters over a 10,000- square mile area, no trace of CG- KTY has been found. Elmer Hawkins, Karen’s hus- band, and her brother Scott Haw- kins participated in the search and are going to continue searching without official help. In Terrace last week Scott said they will begin by examining an area between Meziadin Junction and the Cranberry River on the advice ofa psychic they have consulted, They also intend to follow up a Sighting by a Kitwanga man who was harvesting pine mushrooms in the vicinity of Brown Bear Lake on the day the airplane went miss- ing. Sager said the man heard an airplane pass overhead in cloud and a short time later heard what he believes to be an explosion. Other than that, the two men have little to go on. Both said they are not satisfied with the coopera- tion they received from the search and rescue personnel, and Trans- Provincial Airlines, they said, has been totally uncooperative in pro- viding information on the flight or anything else. "Search and Rescue didn’t really keep us informed on what they were doing, they just told us when they were going out," Scoit Haw- kins said. "On the last day they . § left a message at our motel that they were going up for two hours. They actually went for about 45 minutes, and they didn’t event get together with us after it was over." He added that the search covered many areas in the descending- altitude three-pass method, but ~ there were some areas that weren’t covered with that technique. Search and Rescue, he said, hasn’t told him which -areas weren't covered by that method. Although they requested a list of sightings - people on the ground who thought they saw or heard the airplane overhead — they didn’t get that either. : Tom Sager, a Tertace-based pastor and friend of the family, _said his understanding is that an -investigative report will be pre- pared summarizing the search and relevant information, a report that will be circulated to’ the airline company and the widow of the pilot, Brigit Neubacher. . Elmer and Scott Hawkins are continuing the search with the help of a friend who owns and operates a small private airplane. They intend to start the search by. air and if necessary go into one or more areas with snowmobiles. Both men have been off work since the day when TPA Telegraph - Creck agent Yvonne Tashoots came to Elmer’s door at six o’clock in the afternoon and told him the flight carrying his wife and children was missing. Elmer said his eldest son, who still lives with him in Telegraph Creek, is the only member of his family left. When asked if they have any hope that Karen and the children may still be alive, both men were silent for several moments. Scott finally said, "I don't think so... but there are people who have survived for a long time." A support fund to aid the men and the friends of Karen, Leanne - and Aaron Hawkins in their search has been established at the Terrace branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. Donations can be made to the Karen Hawkins and Family Fund account. Investigation begins: The search for CG-KIY, missing on a flight from Bronson Creek to Terrace since Oct. 22, has been called off after a month, and now the investigators move in. Raleigh Bickford, an official from the Canadian Transporiation Accident Investigation Board in Richmond, is in charge of the investigation. He sald last week that he will collect the facts surrounding the disappearance of the airplane and compile a report for submission to the board, formerly known as the Canadian Aviation Safety Board. The report will be filed within three months, Bickford said. The board will approve a conditional draft of the report and ‘circulate it to what are deemed "interested parties" within the board’s investigation guidelines. Relatives of the passengers, Bickford said, are not considered interested parties. "The airline would be able to give us information, and the wife of the pilot could tell us about his health, habits and other conditions. The passengers,. unfortunately, were there but had no bearing on what happened. The relatives of the passengers wouldn’t have any information relevant to the report," he said. . As in other such investigations, the final report is not expected to be made public until about a year from now. “IT'S NOT TOO EARLY 1 How about a Terrace Review newspaper subscription for that special p person who loves to & keep up on local events and happenings? 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