Overview
- The Transportation Safety Board says it is in the field phase of its probe at the site and expects work to continue for several days, with RCMP planning to remove the wreckage later this week.
- A de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver went down about 40 kilometres south of St. Theresa Point near Makepeace Lake after departing the community, with the crash reported around 6:45 p.m. Saturday.
- Four passengers from St. Theresa Point — two men aged 49 and 53 and two women both aged 50 — were pronounced dead at the scene.
- The 20-year-old pilot suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, according to RCMP.
- RCMP say an iPhone satellite emergency crash notification pinpointed the location; officers chartered a helicopter and Canadian Forces search-and-rescue technicians from CFB Trenton parachuted in to render aid.