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Lake Country man identified as pilot of crashed Cessna

Lake Country man identified as pilot of crashed Cessna | iNFOnews.ca
An Air Cab floatplane Cessna, similar to the one that crashed on Vancouver Island Oct. 24. Flickr.com

LAKE COUNTRY – A man from Lake Country has been identified as one of the three killed in a plane crash on West Cracroft Island Oct. 24.

According to the B.C. Coroners Service, Kevin Roger Williams, aged 42, from Lake Country, was the pilot of the Air Cab Cessna 185 floatplane that crashed into an island in the middle of Potts Lagoon, where it was expected to land, at around 11:45 a.m.

The two other passengers on the plane were Frederick Gerald Cecil Wiley, aged 40, of Merville on Vancouver Island, and Norman Slavik, aged 59, of Surrey. The two passengers had chartered the plane to take them from Port McNeill to a logging operation on West Cracroft Island, a small island on the east side of Robson Bight east of Alert Bay.

All three men died on impact.

The B.C. Coroners Service, Transportation Safety Board, and WorkSafeBC continue to investigate these deaths.

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Adam Proskiw

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Adam has lived in B.C. most of his life. He was born in the Caribou, grew up in the Okanagan, went to university on Vancouver Island and worked as a news photographer in Vancouver. His favourite stories incorporate meaningful photography and feature interesting, passionate locals. He studied writing at UVic and photojournalism in California. He loves talking tractors, dogs and cameras and is always looking for a good story.


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