Officers sent to the scene of the mysterious crash in the vast Canadian desert discovered the hull of a plane, with no signs of an engine, wings, doors, seats or bodies near the alleged crash site.
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A plane in the Canadian backcountry was originally thought to be the site of a decades-old crash. (Civil Air Search and Rescue Association)
“Only the fuselage remained,” a police spokesman said of the site. “Additionally, no registration numbers were attached.”
A Transport Canada report posted on the agency’s website said the government said little was known about how the plane got there, but speculated that it was “destroyed,” most likely by “collision with the ground. “
Meanwhile, an RCMP news release appeared to deepen the mystery, saying the plane had likely been there “for decades” but that no missing planes or passengers had been reported.
But it turned out there was another explanation: Casara members came forward to say that they had actually placed the plane at the remote site a year ago for educational purposes.
A view of the landscape on Aug. 20, 2018, in British Columbia, Canada. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
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The reason, the organization explained, is the point of difficulty in responding to a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. To prepare for this reality, the organization uses historical wreckage or scrapped aircraft for training.
“We like to make it as real as possible for them: smoke, injured people. They love it and we get to treat it like a real downed aircraft,” Fred Carey, director general of British Columbia’s provincial air rescue service, said.
According to Carey, a team of others transported the “carcass” of the Cessna plane to the lowest part of the mountain last summer with a logging skidder.
“Let’s just say it was a chore,” Carey joked.
Lake Peyto in British Columbia, Canada. (Planet One Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Carey also said the organization deliberately created a mystery by hitting the crashed plane, stating that the local airport and the province’s main rescue coordination center had been informed of its location.
“There are symptoms in the rubble and even a phone number to call,” he said. “I’m not sure what happened, the symptoms are gone. But in this case, it doesn’t look like the government has followed protocol. “