{"id":911899,"date":"2026-09-27T18:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911899\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:42:11","slug":"part-of-my-world-flew-away-to-heaven-tributes-pour-in-as-victims-of-helicopter-crash-outside-montreal-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911899\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Part of my world flew away to heaven&#8217;: Tributes pour in as victims of helicopter crash outside Montreal identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after a helicopter crashe on Montreal\u2019s South Shore killed four people their identities were revealed by family members and friends paying their tributes on social media Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the provincial police agency S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec (SQ), the incident happened Saturday around 2:30 p.m. in the Sainte-Brigide-d\u2019Iberville municipality, in the Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie, about 50 kilometres southeast of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The three passengers were identified by Oc\u00e9ane Perreault as her husband Gabriel Jasmin, mother Chantal Raymond and brother Loucas Perreault who were on a helicopter ride to celebrate Raymond\u2019s birthday when the chopper tragically crashed and caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Sept. 26, a part of my world flew away to heaven,\u201d Perreault wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have the words to describe the pain, the shock, and the emptiness I feel. Three people I love more than anything were taken from me far too soon, right before my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jasmin was a host of a show at a Sherbrooke-based radio station 106.1\u00a0\u00c9nergie. He has a daughter with Perreault.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot of the plane Suzanne Jutras, 50, was identified as the fourth victim in a tribute on Facebook by Syndicat UPA Haut-Richelieu, a regional farmers\u2019 union. Jutras\u2019 husband Yves Boulais, a field crop farmer and a former dairy farmer in the region, the syndicat said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring this difficult time, the board of directors of the Haut-Richelieu UPA, along with the entire farming community, would like to offer their most sincere condolences to Yves, their family, their loved ones, and everyone affected by this tragedy,\u201d the union wrote.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by SQ\u2019s Major Crimes Unit is underway. Investigators from the Transportation Safety Board were also on site Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Ottawa as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=ottawa.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790534531_871_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after a helicopter crashe on Montreal\u2019s South Shore killed four people their identities were revealed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-911899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911899","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=911899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}