SANFORD, Man.\u2014Two men have died in a small plane crash in Manitoba that took several hours for searchers to locate due to poor weather.<\/p>\n
RCMP say the single-engine Cessna took off on Thursday from St. Andrews, north of Winnipeg, and was reported late at its destination in Winkler.<\/p>\n
Police, along with a Canadian Armed Forces search-and-rescue team, eventually found the wreckage in a field near Brunkild, about 45 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg early Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, there were two males on board \u2014 a 60-year-old and a 41-year-old \u2014 and both were deceased when we located the plane,\u201d RCMP spokeswoman Tara Seel said.<\/p>\n
Police said both men were from Winkler.<\/p>\n
Albert Paetkau told CTV Winnipeg that the 60-year-old who died was his brother, Art Paetkau while people on social media identified the younger man as electrician John Friesen.<\/p>\n
Paetkau is the registered owner of a plane with the tail markings seen on the wreckage.<\/p>\n
Friends said he owned Arty’s Air Service, a company that specialized in crop spraying.<\/p>\n
The site said Paetkau started his business in 1979 and had been a pilot in the agricultural field for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n
Jake Rempel, who owns an electrical shop near Arty’s Air Service, said he knew both men who died in the crash.<\/p>\n
He told CTV that Paetkau had been a pilot as long as he’d known him.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I have two funerals to go,\u201d Rempel said.<\/p>\n
The Transportation Safety Board said it had deployed investigators to the site.<\/p>\n
Seel said searchers used snowmobiles, but weather conditions and visibility were poor at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey filed a flight plan, so they (researchers) were able to use that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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