WW2 aircraft and remains recovered from Vancouver Island mountainside
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A Second World War training aircraft and the remains of four airmen who went missing in 1942 have been recovered from a remote logging site on Vancouver Island.
The Avro Anson aircraft went missing on Oct. 30, 1942, after it left the air force base at Patricia Bay in Sidney on a navigational training flight.
After the aircraft failed to return to the base as planned, searches failed to locate any wreckage.
Then last October, a logging crew working on a remote mountainside on the west coast of Vancouver Island near Port Renfrew came upon the wreckage.
The Department of National Defence surveyed the site and discovered the remains of the four airmen, but conditions at the time made it too difficult to recover them.
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The four airmen included Sgt. William Baird from the Royal Canadian Air Force, and three members of the British Royal Air Force: Pilot Officer Charles Fox, Pilot Officer Anthony William Lawrence, and Sgt. Robert Ernest Luckock.
