A mysterious plane crash is now being investigated after a man was found dead next to an aircraft that was missing since Monday.
An autopsy was being carried out on the victim yesterday in Calgary to establish a positive identification of the deceased man, Coronation RCMP said in a release yesterday. The pilot left Edmonton’s City Centre Airport Monday in a single-engine plane.
A spokesman for the Coronation RCMP, Const. Brett Torpe, told Metro yesterday it’s “too early in the investigation” to establish the circumstances of the crash, where it was heading, as well as the name of the victim on board.
“Due to complexities of the aircraft, the final report may not be out for a year,” said Torpe.
The Calgary Chief Medical Examiner’s office, which is examining the remains of the deceased, said autopsy results could take several days.
On June 19, at approximately 3:30 p.m., Coronation RCMP were notified by the Canadian Forces Joint Rescue Operations Centre based in Trenton, Ont., that a search aircraft had discovered a downed single-engine airplane in a remote area approximately 40 kilometres northwest of Coronation.
