From now until Dec.
31, CTV Kitchener is counting down the top 10 local stories of 2012.
Catch the countdown each night on CTV News at Six.
At number 8
are the stories of six people with ties to Waterloo Region and the
surrounding area that died tragically in plane crashes.
Calabogie crash
74-year-old Bob Reany
was a pilot from Port Elgin with extensive international flying
experience. But on Thanksgiving, he was killed when his brand new six
seater plane went down in a wooded area near Calabogie.
Reany was the only one in the plane at the time, as he had dropped off the owner in Ottawa.
The
cause of the crash remains under investigation. At the time, Reany’s
family said they couldn’t imagine a mechanical malfunction he was
incapable of handling.
“If anybody could have done anything to
salvage that aircraft and not crash it, he would have been the fellow,”
Bob’s brother Bill Reany told CTV News at the time.
Puslinch Lake
A
few weeks after the Calabogie incident, a float plane crashed at
Puslinch Lake. The plane had been landing and taking off all afternoon.
The pilot, 47-year-old Russel Hawkins of Guelph, died at the scene. A passenger survived the crash.
Moorefield crash
In
August, a single engine Cessna 172 from the Waterloo Wellington Flight
Centre went down north of Kitchener in a cornfield near Moorefield.
Four
people were on board and had taken off from the Region of Waterloo
airport on what was supposed to be a sightseeing tour to Niagara Falls
and Toronto. All four were killed when the plane crashed.
20-year-old Marko Misic was the pilot of the rented plane, and described by a former classmate as an avid flyer.
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