Snowmobiler helps find missing plane, passengers on a B.C. glacier

Image Courtesy of Joint Rescue Coordination Centre
Image Courtesy of Joint Rescue Coordination Centre

By Nick Wells, CTV News, June 7, 2016

A snowmobiler armed with a camera helped search and rescue crews track down a missing plane and its three occupants on a glacier near Whistler, B.C. on Monday afternoon.

The single engine plane, with the three men onboard, had taken off from Pitt Meadows Airport on Sunday morning and was bound for Pemberton, a community just north of Whistler.

A search was launched on Sunday afternoon after the plane failed to return to Pitt Meadows.

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