BC wants to honour plane crash heroes
Posted Nov 1, 2011 11:47 am.
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VICTORIA (NEWS1130) – The BC government wants to honour the people who risked their own lives to pull people out of the crashed plane that landed on the road near Vancouver International Airport last week.
A reception will be held in Victoria after Premier Christy Clark returns from Asia.
In a statement, Clark says she heard and read the incredible stories of the heroism that emerged after the plane, with nine people aboard, slammed onto a street last Thursday afternoon.
Clark says the rescuers who put themselves in danger as they pulled the passengers out of the burning Beechcraft King Air 100 deserve to be publicly thanked.
Forty-four-year-old pilot Luc Fortin of North Vancouver died about five hours after the crash. Six of the other nine people injured remain in hospital.
Vancouver Coastal Health says one is in critical condition and three are in serious but stable condition. The two other people may be released from hospital later this week.
