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Five people have been reported dead in the mid-air collision between two airplanes; one was a Lake Buccaneer amphibious plane and the other was Piper PA-28. The tragic accident took place near St. Brieux Saturday.
The Lake Buccaneer amphibious plane was carrying a man and a woman from Regina to La Ronge while Piper PA-28 was carrying two men and a young male from Calgary to St. Brieux. All five were reported dead by the RCMP.
“How do you explain it? It’s almost like a lightning strike,” said Jerry Bourgault, general manager and president of Bourgault Industries, an international air seeder company based in St. Brieux. “The probability of it happening would be extremely low… It’s not clear to us what happened. The RCMP and Transport Canada will have to piece it together.”
Piper PA-28 that took off from Calgary Alberta was headed towards Bourgault Industries landing strip, northeast of St. Brieux. The plane crashed in the midway and its debris was found around 10kms west of St. Brieux.
On Saturday, Bourgault took off with a friend to look for the wreckage and found one of the planes in the west of St. Brieux. According to him, there was a lot of wreckage, probably pieces spread for a mile.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says investigators are looking for more evidence, particularly the black boxes. However, TSB general manager Peter Hildebrand said he doubts the planes even had the black boxes.
“They’re not required to have them,” Hildebrand said. “They, for the most part, don’t have them.”
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