Plane with seven crashes on Canadian Pacific coast
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Rescuers made contact with a survivor after a small plane carrying seven people crashed on Sunday on Canada's rugged Pacific coast, officials said.
The Pacific Coast Airlines amphibious plane was on a flight from Port Hardy, British Columbia, to Chamiss Bay, a remote village on the west coast of Vancouver Island when it crashed, according to the Pacific Rescue Coordination Center.
Search crews were able to make sporadic cell phone contact with a survivor but search planes have not been able to locate the wreckage in the wilderness mountains of the northern end of the island.
The condition of the survivor and the six of people on the aircraft is not known, rescue officials said. (Reporting by Allan Dowd; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
