RCMP looks for remains after Saskatchewan mid-air collision

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Transportation Safety Board investigators are trying to look into the mysterious midair collision of two planes near northeast of Saskatoon. The clash killed all five boarders.

An RCMP underwater recovery team is been searching for the remains of victims in west of St. Brieux, located about 180kms northeast of Saskatoon.

RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Rob King said: “Our members are still on scene and still combing through the wreckage trying to ensure we have as much of the planes intact as possible.”

The mid-air collision between two airplanes took place on Saturday – one was a Lake Buccaneer amphibious plane and the other was Piper PA-28. 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.

“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.

Apparently, Joy Jackson, 57, and Eric Jackson, 60, were travelling in the second plane. Even though RCMP knows the identities of the victims but autopsies are compulsory for confirmation.

“We’re still searching for all the remains,” King said. “The terrain is what the terrain is and you have to work with what you’ve got. The density does make it more difficult.”