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5 dead in plane crash east of Edmonton
Pilot's father died in B.C. plane crash last fall
Last Updated: Friday, March 28, 2008 | 5:12 PM MT Comments12Recommend287CBC News
Five people died Friday morning when a small airplane owned by an Edmonton engineering company crashed while travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg.
Reagan Williams, left, was piloting the plane that crashed near Wainwright, Alta., on Friday. His father, Allen, right, was killed when he crashed his plane in October 2007.
(A.D. Williams Engineering)
The wreckage was located shortly after noon MT approximately 12 kilometres northeast of Wainwright, Alta., RCMP said.
"Unfortunately, all five have been confirmed deceased," RCMP Cpl. Darren Anderson told CBC News from Edmonton.
Sue O'Connor, a spokeswoman for A.D. Williams Engineering, confirmed that the plane, a Piper PA-46, was being piloted by the company's president, Reagan Williams, who was killed in the crash.
The wreckage of the A.D.Williams Piper Malibu lies in a wooded area northeast of Wainwright.
(RCMP)
Two of the other victims were identified as Phil Allard, the chief financial officer, and Rhonda Quirke, another company executive.
O'Connor said the two other victims, both contract employees, were not being named at this time.
The plane was en route to Winnipeg from Edmonton's City Centre Airport when it disappeared from radar at 8:12 a.m. MT.
Rescue crews at a site 12 kilometres northeast of Wainwright work to recover the bodies of five people who died in a plane crash Friday morning.
(CBC)
Williams took over the company from his father, Allen Williams, 65, who was himself killed when he crashed his Cessna 172 in rugged terrain near Golden, B.C., in October.
Searchers found Allen Williams's three-year-old granddaughter, Kate, safely strapped into a child seat in the upside-down plane's wreckage. She was the only survivor of that crash.
Reagan Williams was the girl's uncle.
The company's chief financial officer, Steven Sutton, 49, was also killed in the October crash.
5 dead in plane crash east of Edmonton
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