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2009/01/09

Quebec Piper Crash



What: single-engine 1968 Piper Cherokee en route after refueling in Quebec City en route to Saint John, N.B.
Where: near Buckland*, 90 kilometres southeast of Quebec City.
When: Tuesday
Who: pilot Jesse Barrie, and two surviving passengers: Dan Weiher and Stephanie Shipley. There were two fatalities: Pilot Jesse Barrie and passenger Jeffrey McClymont
Why: No cause has been determined.

After Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre at CFB Trenton, Ont received a 911 call from the female survivor of the crash,rescue searchers parachuted in and the two survivors were found; they were still alive, though not outfitted for the winter weather conditions. They are described as being "frozen" when they were airlifted by helicopter at 10:30 a.m to Quebec city.

*Notre-Dame-Auxiliatrice-de-Buckland
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