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Missing Quebec couple found after crash
TRENTON, Ontario, -- A Quebec couple reported missing after walking away from a plane crash in a wooded area has been found, search-and-rescue authorities say.
The private plane carrying Carol Tremblay, 56, and his partner, Nathalie Cote, 44, flipped upon landing Sunday and sank to the bottom of the Pipmuacan Reservoir, Postmedia News reported Wednesday.
The couple made it out of the float plane and, wearing their life jackets, swam nearly an hour before they reached an island in the middle of the reservoir, The Vancouver Sun said.
Tremblay and Cote spent two days on the island sleeping rough before leaving to swim for the reservoir's banks Tuesday morning.
They walked about 12 miles in the woods until they came upon a cabin, the Sun said.
Capt. Pierre Bolduc of the rescue center said, "There was a battery in the cabin and they rigged it to signal the search crew."
Tremblay and Cote were spotted shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday by a Griffon helicopter belonging to the Joint Co-ordination Rescue Center in Trenton, Ontario, picked up and taken to a Saguenay hospital where they were judged to be fine, Postmedia News said.
TRENTON, Ontario, -- A Quebec couple reported missing after walking away from a plane crash in a wooded area has been found, search-and-rescue authorities say.
The private plane carrying Carol Tremblay, 56, and his partner, Nathalie Cote, 44, flipped upon landing Sunday and sank to the bottom of the Pipmuacan Reservoir, Postmedia News reported Wednesday.
The couple made it out of the float plane and, wearing their life jackets, swam nearly an hour before they reached an island in the middle of the reservoir, The Vancouver Sun said.
Tremblay and Cote spent two days on the island sleeping rough before leaving to swim for the reservoir's banks Tuesday morning.
They walked about 12 miles in the woods until they came upon a cabin, the Sun said.
Capt. Pierre Bolduc of the rescue center said, "There was a battery in the cabin and they rigged it to signal the search crew."
Tremblay and Cote were spotted shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday by a Griffon helicopter belonging to the Joint Co-ordination Rescue Center in Trenton, Ontario, picked up and taken to a Saguenay hospital where they were judged to be fine, Postmedia News said.