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Canwest News Service
VICTORIA Wreckage from a float plane that crashed near Victoria on Sunday, killing six of eight people on board, including an infant, was being raised yesterday. After an initial inspection by Transprotation Safety Board officials, the plane will be transported to a federal facility in Richmond, B.C., where an is expected to take place. The retrieval of the de Havilland Beaver aircraft — which nosedived into the frigid water off the southeast coast of Vancouver Island shortly after takeoff on Sunday — was expected to be completed by early afternoon. The fuselage came to rest 11 metres below the surface. Two people survived the crash and are in stable condition in Victoria General Hospital. RCMP have identified the victims as Kerry Margaret Morrissey, 41, and her baby daughter Sarah Grace Morrissey, both of Vancouver; Richard Bruce Haskitt, 49, and Cindy Schafer, 44, both of Huntington Beach, Calif.; Catherine White-Holman, 55, of Vancouver; and Thomas Gordon Glenn, 60, of White Rock, B.C.
