N.W.T. coroner service identifies 3 passengers who died in Aug. 16 plane crash
YELLOWKNIFE — The three passengers who died in a light plane crash at a remote Northwest Territories lake last Thursday have been identified.
The N.W.T. coroner service says dead are 33-year-old Geoffrey Dean of Castor, Alta., and Stewart and Jean Edelman of Saskatoon, who were both 72.
The Transportation Safety Board has said a Cessna 206 plane operated by Simpson Air went down about 6:30 p.m. on Thursday at Little Doctor Lake near the North Nahanni River.
The N.W.T. Health Department said the pilot and another passenger were not hurt in the crash.