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CANOE News
Thursday, Jun. 21, 2001
Two survive crash
PORT BURWELL, Ont. (CP) -- Two jets from Canada‘s famed aerobatic Snowbirds team collided Thursday afternoon while flying in formation, sending one plane plunging into Lake Erie, the Canadian Forces said.
The pilot and an unidentified passenger were pulled alive from the chilly water and appeared to be in good condition.
Capt. Barry Tolmie, from the rescue co-ordination centre at CFB Trenton, said the pair was taken to hospital.
The pilot was believed to be walking, Tolmie said, and the passenger was on a stretcher with undetermined injuries.
The jet, one of nine flying in formation during a media demonstration, collided near this southwestern Ontario community at about 3 p.m. about 40 kilometres south of London.
A television reporter on one of the other jets described the frantic chatter heard over her head set as the plane went down.
"It was very surreal," said CPFL‘s Kathy Mueller, adding she was unable to see the plane fall into the water.
"It was almost an ‘I can‘t believe this is happening‘ kind-of-thing, when you hear the term, ‘Mayday, mayday,‘ and ‘We‘ve got a plane in the water.‘ "
Nancy Lawrence, of the London Health Sciences Centre, said one of the two survivors was being taken to hospital there.
"He is conscious and alert and will be assessed in emergency," she said, adding that the man‘s injuries were more severe than those of the other survivor.
The hospital is a trauma centre.
The other survivor was taken by helicopter to St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital.
Lieut. Paul Doucette, a spokesman for CFB Trenton‘s search and rescue centre, said it was unclear if anyone else was considered missing.
"We‘re looking for a scene right now . . . and from that point, survivors," he said.
"The details are very sketchy."
The eight other Snowbird jets, including the other one involved in the collision, all returned to the London Internation Airport, where an airshow was scheduled over three days starting Friday.
No one could say the condition of the other plane involved in the mid-air collision.
The show was to display nine Snowbird jets and other Canadian Forces aircraft. Aircraft from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air National Guard were also scheduled to appear.
Four Snowbird pilots have lost their lives in the performance of their duties.
The world-renowned aerobatics team was involved in a similar accident last September in Toronto.
Two of the Snowbird‘s Tutor jets sustained minor damage when the wing of one craft grazed the tail of another as they were on the way to the Canadian International Air Show.
The pilots were not injured and both planes landed safely.
Snowbird Capt. Michael VandenBos, 29, died in an accident near Moose Jaw, Sask., Dec. 10, 1998.
He died when his Snowbird jet touched wing tips with a colleague‘s plane during training and crashed in a field in south-central Saskatchewan.
The crash was determined to be the cause of human error and afterwards brought out calls for changes in the way members of Canada‘s famed aerobatic squadron are trained.
In 1989, during the Canadian National Exhibition airshow, another pilot died when his plane crashed into Lake Ontario.
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-the patriot-
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CANOE News
Thursday, Jun. 21, 2001
Two survive crash
PORT BURWELL, Ont. (CP) -- Two jets from Canada‘s famed aerobatic Snowbirds team collided Thursday afternoon while flying in formation, sending one plane plunging into Lake Erie, the Canadian Forces said.
The pilot and an unidentified passenger were pulled alive from the chilly water and appeared to be in good condition.
Capt. Barry Tolmie, from the rescue co-ordination centre at CFB Trenton, said the pair was taken to hospital.
The pilot was believed to be walking, Tolmie said, and the passenger was on a stretcher with undetermined injuries.
The jet, one of nine flying in formation during a media demonstration, collided near this southwestern Ontario community at about 3 p.m. about 40 kilometres south of London.
A television reporter on one of the other jets described the frantic chatter heard over her head set as the plane went down.
"It was very surreal," said CPFL‘s Kathy Mueller, adding she was unable to see the plane fall into the water.
"It was almost an ‘I can‘t believe this is happening‘ kind-of-thing, when you hear the term, ‘Mayday, mayday,‘ and ‘We‘ve got a plane in the water.‘ "
Nancy Lawrence, of the London Health Sciences Centre, said one of the two survivors was being taken to hospital there.
"He is conscious and alert and will be assessed in emergency," she said, adding that the man‘s injuries were more severe than those of the other survivor.
The hospital is a trauma centre.
The other survivor was taken by helicopter to St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital.
Lieut. Paul Doucette, a spokesman for CFB Trenton‘s search and rescue centre, said it was unclear if anyone else was considered missing.
"We‘re looking for a scene right now . . . and from that point, survivors," he said.
"The details are very sketchy."
The eight other Snowbird jets, including the other one involved in the collision, all returned to the London Internation Airport, where an airshow was scheduled over three days starting Friday.
No one could say the condition of the other plane involved in the mid-air collision.
The show was to display nine Snowbird jets and other Canadian Forces aircraft. Aircraft from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Air National Guard were also scheduled to appear.
Four Snowbird pilots have lost their lives in the performance of their duties.
The world-renowned aerobatics team was involved in a similar accident last September in Toronto.
Two of the Snowbird‘s Tutor jets sustained minor damage when the wing of one craft grazed the tail of another as they were on the way to the Canadian International Air Show.
The pilots were not injured and both planes landed safely.
Snowbird Capt. Michael VandenBos, 29, died in an accident near Moose Jaw, Sask., Dec. 10, 1998.
He died when his Snowbird jet touched wing tips with a colleague‘s plane during training and crashed in a field in south-central Saskatchewan.
The crash was determined to be the cause of human error and afterwards brought out calls for changes in the way members of Canada‘s famed aerobatic squadron are trained.
In 1989, during the Canadian National Exhibition airshow, another pilot died when his plane crashed into Lake Ontario.
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-the patriot-
