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Two remain in hospital following plane crash
Laura Busch Northern News Services Published Monday, October 10, 2011
The two survivors both hail from Lutsel K'e, and were medevaced to Edmonton Tuesday evening after first being treated at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, where they arrived just after 6:30 p.m. They are both reported to be in stable condition, though no details of their injuries or expected length of stay in hospital were released as of press time. Air Tindi flight AT2000 was making a routine trip from Yellowknife to Lutsel K'e and was scheduled to arrive at 11:45 a.m. At approximately 2 p.m., police were notified of the crash. This is the third crash resulting in fatalities in the North this summer. A pilot involved in a fourth crash near Wrigley walked away with no major injuries. "Yesterday, when I heard that news, they told me about 30 miles away from Lutsel k'e at Utsingi Point," said George Marlowe, father of Bernice Marlowe while he was en route to Edmonton to visit his daughter the day after the crash. "And me, I thought, I know that land really good, big hills, a rough place. And right away I thought, I know my daughter is in there." Marlowe said he was originally told that the plane had crashed into the water, but later found out that the plane had crashed into the west face of a cliff at Pethei Penninsula, a dramatic 600-foot escarpment rising out of the waters of Great Slave Lake. After hearing that the wreckage was found on the hill, he waited for another hour to hear that his daughter had survived. "But it wasn't really a good sign," he said. "For me, it's OK, but the other three, we didn't know what happened. Then later on I heard that Sheldon was OK." Marlowe also mentioned that a hunter from Lutsel K'e was out hunting near the site when the plane went down. "He said he was hunting, walking out on the land and all of a sudden he hears a plane really low and then he didn't know what was going on and then he heard something way up on the hill, some sound like a crash," said Marlowe. At a press conference held Thursday, Air Tindi president Chuck Parker also thanked this good samaritan, whose name has not been released. The pilot of the Cessna 208B Caravan, 28-year-old Matt Bromley of Yellowknife, and passenger Timothy Harris, 54, also of Yellowknife, died at the scene. The RCMP has handed the investigation over to the Transportation Safety Board, said Const. Kathy Law of the RCMP "G" Division.
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