CANADIAN FORCES MEDIA RELEASE (19 January 2010)
“19 WING COMOX – Last night Jan 18th, the Cormorant helicopter and the Buffalo aircraft from 442 Squadron, 19 Wing Comox, were dispatched by the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre to the Sicamous, BC area to the site of an avalanche and four male snowmobilers.
Capt Scott Dockeray, the Cormorant Aircraft Commander describes the night flight “as a fairly long transit, but the Buffalo was already there dropping flares and providing illumination, so it made it easier to find them. The most difficult portion was the helicopter was high and heavy and didn’t have a lot of power to play with”.
Two search and rescue technicians were hoisted 130 feet down to the site and they found one uninjured, one deceased and one with lower leg injuries, but in stable condition. They assessed their injured person and packaged him in preparation to hoist him up to the helicopter. The uninjured male assisted the search and rescue technicians on the scene and when the extraction was complete was flown back to the top where the fourth snowmobiler was waiting.
The injured patient was taken to the Kamloops Hospital. His condition is unknown at this time.
The CH-149 Crew: Capt Scott Dockeray, Aircraft Commander, Capt Brian Woolliams, First Officer, Sgt Neil Thorne, Flight Engineer, Sgt Dwayne Guay and MCpl Anthony Vail Search and Rescue Technicians.”
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