By The Canadian Press

Remains found at site of 10-month-old plane crash in southeastern B.C

Sep 12, 2018 | 7:14 AM

REVELSTOKE, B.C. – RCMP say remains have been found at the site of a plane that crashed 10 months ago in southeastern British Columbia.

Mounties in Revelstoke say the coroner is now trying to determine if the remains are human and whether they match either of the people aboard the single-engine plane when it went down on Nov. 25, 2017.

Staff Sgt. Kurt Grabinsky says in a release that the downed plane is the white and burgundy Mooney aircraft that vanished last fall on a flight from Penticton to Edmonton.

Pilot Dominic Neron, 28, and his girlfriend Ashley Bourgeault, 31, were aboard but a nine-day search following the crash failed to find any trace of them or the plane.

RCMP say the wreckage was found in Glacier National Park, about 60 kilometres northeast of Revelstoke but only a short distance from the Trans-Canada Highway.

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Police completed a survey of the heavily wooded scene on Tuesday and Grabinsky says little was left of the small aircraft.

Randy McLeod, a critical care paramedic, and a crew were flying overhead in an ambulance service helicopter.

He says clear weather and “a split-second glimpse of something” that didn’t belong among the trees led to the discovery of the plane.

(The Canadian Press)