
Plane discovery brings closure for family of missing pilot
KAMLOOPS — Search crews looking for a plane that went missing from Stony Plain, Alta. in September have discovered the wreckage of a different aircraft that disappeared decades ago.
It was the plane carrying 55-year-old Len Dykhuizen and pilot 78-year-old Ernie Whitehead, who had left Eagle Bay for a fishing trip to McDougall Lake in June 1987.
Whitehead’s nephew, John Harper, lives in Pritchard. He recalls going for a ride in his Uncle Ernie’s float plane when he was about 10 years old.
“I think every nephew had a ride in it and it was quite a common sight to see Ern’s Super Cub,” Harper said.