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A helicopter company says two people are dead and another is injured after a helicopter crash near north Vancouver Island Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n
Sean Smyth, general manager of West Coast Helicopters, said the helicopter was operating in Loughborough Inlet for forestry operations when the crash happened.<\/p>\n
He said an experienced pilot who worked for him was one of the two people who died. <\/p>\n
“We’re a tight-knit crew,” he said. “It’s been hard on everybody.”<\/p>\n
Smyth added the pilot was a key member of his crew, and was “very well liked, a very hard worker, very good at what he did.”<\/p>\n
The two passengers on board were engineers working with a forestry operations company, according to Smyth.<\/p>\n
Details around the crash are still unknown, Smyth said, adding that his company will be open and transparent about what happened.<\/p>\n
1 person in hospital<\/p>\n
The Victoria-based Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) says it was notified of a helicopter crash by an emergency locator transmitter signal at about 6:30 a.m. PT, and a Cormorant helicopter and a Kingfisher aircraft from 19 Wing Comox responded. <\/p>\n
JRCC said three people were recovered and taken to local health services. <\/p>\n
B.C. Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) says it received a call about the incident at Stafford Lake, near Bute Inlet, and responded with two air ambulances and a ground ambulance.<\/p>\n
“Paramedics provided emergency medical care to one patient who was flown out to the Canadian Forces Base in Comox,” said BCEHS. <\/p>\n
“The patient was then transported by air ambulance to hospital in serious but stable condition.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Transportation Safety Board says a team of investigators is being deployed and will be arriving at the accident site tomorrow morning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-802338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}