The 42-year-old man, who was found deceased at the scene following a plane crash on a grass airstrip at the Flying U Guest Ranch on North Green Lake before noon on June 16, has been identified as Jonathan Linsay Blair of Edmonton, Alberta.
A 74-year-old man who piloted the Piper Cherokee Arrow plane, was airlifted to Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops and he remains in serious condition.
Bill Yearwood of the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) says the small private aircraft crashed while landing on the airstrip.
Yearwood adds TSB is waiting to interview the pilot, but due to the extent of the injuries, he doubts it will happen anytime soon.
“We are waiting for the police for some more information. We are assessing the occurrence. It is a landing accident ... lost control during landing.”
100 Mile House Fire Rescue fire chief Roger Hollander says they got a callout at 11:50 a.m. and responded with one vehicle to the crash site.
Sunset View Green Lake park operator Peter Mayr heard the plane come down before the crash.
“I heard these two loud bangs like backfire. I ran to the beach to see the plane and heard one more backfire before it crashed.”
The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
More details to come.