Search underway for lacking helicopter close to Revelstoke

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REVELSTOKE — Rescue crews are looking for a helicopter that’s believed to be lacking in Glacier Nationwide Park on Friday.

Pedram Mohyeddin, a spokesperson for Maritime Forces Pacific, says the province’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre was alerted to the sound of an emergency locator transmitter about 18 kilometres east of Revelstoke.

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Mohyeddin says crews are actually working as if the ping got here from the lacking helicopter, which was on its means from Calgary to Sicamous Friday.

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He says Search and Rescue, the RCMP and the Civil Air Search and Rescue Affiliation have joined the bottom search, however famous that it’s not clear if the helicopter crashed or how many individuals could have been on board.

Mohyeddin says a search-and-rescue helicopter and a army plane had been additionally tasked with discovering the lacking helicopter, however low visibility attributable to climate is stopping them from working.

He says they’re grounded however are ready for a window of higher climate to rejoin the search by air and hope to get a visible on the scene.

“The entire function of doing such a large search and utilizing so many belongings within the first hours of a search and rescue is (as a result of) if there’s any attainable means that this can be a crashed helicopter, then we wish to get there to offer support,” he stated Saturday.

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