Military starting to remove debris from Snowbird crash site
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KAMLOOPS — Prime Minister Trudeau says there won’t be any immediate decision on the future of the Canadian Forces Snowbirds until results of Sunday’s crash in Kamloops are released. He says it’s far too early to do anything one way or the other right now.
And while it will be some time before we have much information about the cause of Sunday’s crash of a Canadian Forces Snowbird, military personnel will be here for a while sorting through the debris. Captain Jennifer Casey was killed in the crash Sunday morning.
In the Brocklehurst neighbourhood where the crash occurred, some of the debris has been moved away, but residents are still coping with the aftermath of the tragedy. Once all the pictures have been taken, and the area scoured for any additional pieces of the wreckage, it can start to be removed off site where it can be examined more thoroughly. If anyone spots anything, don’t touch it, report it so officials can examine it in the exact spot it landed.
Defence Minister Harjit Singh was in Kamloops yesterday. He went to the memorial which is growing at the east end of the airport, and was joined by military personnel, including some members of the Snowbirds. He met with MP Cathy McLeod and Mayor Ken Christian, and it’s believed he also went to Royal Inland Hospital to visit Captain Richard MacDougall, the pilot of the plane that went down.
