SPE UTINDT ene ie Ie snare Sg fet Se Sm The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 26, 1999 - A9 Chris Nickless photo EMERGENCY PERSONNEL go through the wreckage caused at 108 Mile House in the Cariboo may 16 when two light planes, one of them flown by a Terrace resident, collided in mid-air and crashed. No-one was killed. Mid-air collision Injures local pilot | A LOCAL resident is recovering from injuries sustained when his light plane collided with another onc in the skies over the 108 Mile airport in the Cariboo May 16. Wayne Webber, 58, was taken to hospital in Kam- loops with non-life threaten- ing injuries. Also injured and hospitalized was pas- Senger was Joan Pawtuski, 37, of Vernon and Gordon Mason, 59, of Prince George, the pilot of the other plane, According to witnesses, the top plane, a Cessna, flown by Webber clipped the bottom small plane flown by Mason. Witnesses then said the two aircraft spun out of con- trol, tried to separate, rose up, stalled, and then crashed into the comer of 100 Mile Siding and Windows at the back of a mall complex near the airport. RCMP wouldn't comment on the cause of the crash and it is being investigated by the Aviation and Trans- portation Safety Board. Janette Yampolsky said she and her husband, Fred Curtis, were in their apart- ment above the mall when the collision happened. **T was sitting there and all the sudden I heard a bang, then I heard a second crash and it shook the building,’’ Yampolsky said. “I was really scared, I didn’t know _ Significant amount of avia- the front of ihe mall were not in immediate danger. Yampolsky said the RCMP were there just a few moments after the planes crash landed and the 108 Fire Department wasn’t far behind, she said. 100 Mile Fire and Rescue showed up what was going on.’” She said Curtis quickly phoned RCMP and then ran to help, He stripped off his golf shirt to stem a bleeding wound on one man, and then helped RCMP take him out of bis plane, - The two men were ex- tracted quickly, but a few minutes later to sup- Pawluski was in the plane port. for almost an hour before “They're wonderful the fire departments managed to cut her out. 100 Mile House RCMP Const, Rick Drought said a heroes, to save our building from a fire hazard,”’ Yampolsky said. RCMP Special Const. Geory Penner was off-duty in the area when the inci- dent occurred and was the first person on the scene. He and bystanders were able to free one pilot immediately and assisted with the other extractions, 100 Mile Siding and Windows owner Mark Wag- man said he was working with a forklift in a bay about 30 meters away from the crish, but didn’t hear it. He ran out to see what happened after he saw an- other person run by and then phoned the RCMP. - tion fuel was spilling out from the planes, creating a serious fire hazard, On their way down the planes had missed a power line, per- haps just by inches. He said he ordered all RCMP, ambulance atten- dents and firefighters on the scene to turn off their radios for fear of sparking fumes. The fire departments cav- ered the fuel in retardant foam to reduce the risk of fire. 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