11-17-2007, 10:36 AM
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| Quebec lake's deep waters reveal hunters' fate Quote:
Fifty years after it crashed, the wreckage of a bush plane that disappeared while carrying a group of hunters has been found intact at the bottom of Quebec's Lac Simon.
The plane, a Republic RC-3 SeaBee, disappeared in bad weather on Nov. 21, 1957, as it was completing the third of its three trips that day. The carcass of a hunting dog washed up on shore. But the bodies of pilot Gaétan Deshaies, and hunters Tony Chivazza, Philippe Ouimet and Louis Hamel, all of whom were bachelors in their early 30s, were never found.
Last month, however, a group of divers who had searched the lake's deep waters for 10 years finally made a breakthrough.....
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