An RCMP underwater recovery team searching Family Lake near Little Grand Rapids Oct. 27 found the body of a 49-year-old man after witnesses reported that a plane with three people on board crashed Oct. 26 around 8:30 a.m.
Witnesses told police that the plane clipped a tree before going into the water.
RCMP Search & Rescue, the underwater recovery team and a search and rescue plane from RCAF 435 Squadron in Winnipeg were dispatched to the area Oct. 26 and located plane debris on the surface of the lake, which is about 280 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg near the Manitoba-Ontario boundary.
The man is believed to have been one of the passengers in the nine-seat Otter float plane. the 39-year-old male pilot and the other passenger, a 42-year-old man, remained unaccounted for as of the afternoon of Oct. 28, when the underwater team was conducting additional dives.
Little Grand Rapids RCMP and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada continue investigating.
