Prospector John Larche is recovering in an Alberta hospital from severe injuries he sustained in an Aug. 7 plane crash that killed his passenger and fellow prospector Harris Hanson.
Larche and his close friend Hanson were flying from Timmins, Ont., to the Eskay Creek gold discovery in British Columbia when their plane struck a mountain in High Level, Alta.
Colleagues say Larche, who was piloting the plane, had placed a distress call to air traffic control in Edmonton but couldn’t prevent the aircraft from going down. While Larche suffered broken ribs, a fractured vertebrae and unspecified head injuries, he was conscious when his wife Delores flew to Alberta this week to be by his side. It is the second time that the flying enthusiast and Canadian Mining Hall of Fame director has survived a plane crash.
Funeral services for Hanson, 73, were held in Kirkland Lake, Ont., Aug. 13., Having worked in northern Ontario for most of his life, Hanson is survived by his wife Olive and daughters Linda and Valerie.
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