![]() ![]() The investigation of the crash is continuing and includes the coroners service, the Transportation Safety Board and WorkSafe B.C. Howatt was an experienced pilot with more than 16,000 accident-free flying hours, the company said. “Daily we receive kind words and encouragement from the many people he had touched over his life in this area and beyond.” “The thousands of passengers who had the privilege of flying with him knew him for his warm smile and professional manner,” the statement said. Howatt was described as a good friend and colleague and “a very knowledgeable and skilled pilot” who loved what he did. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Grant’s family, as well as the other families affected by this tragedy,” the statement said. In a statement on the Air Nootka website, the company expressed its sadness at Howatt’s death. “He was almost like a tour guide once he was out there,” he said, adding that the pilot was known to take tiny detours to show passengers a particularly pretty sight. Howatt was pretty quiet on the ground but, in the air, he was always talking, Anderson said. Anderson had flown several times with the pilot, who he said was “very well known and very liked.” She was operated by Bradley air Services, Island air, and CoVal Air before her time at Air Nootka. Gold River Mayor Craig Anderson said he was shocked to learn that Howatt died in the crash. C-FQEI (Air Nootka) C-FQEI operated with Air Nootka on Vancouver island for many years out of the Gold River Air Nootka seaplane base on the western coast of Vancouver Island. The passengers on the plane were hikers who had been backpacking on the remote Hesquiat Trail. Two were able to walk away from the scene, while two suffered broken bones and burns. Four other people aboard the plane survived the crash. Best of all, there will be little chance of anybody else waiting for your wave. With plenty of fresh drinking water and driftwood for fires at sunset, it makes for an ideal camping & surfing adventure. The crash also claimed the life of 63-year-old Charles Henry Turner of Courtenay. Air Nootka can fly you to a remote place, where you and your friends can surf on the amazing, sandy beaches of the west coast of Vancouver Island. The plane went down minutes after takeoff. ![]() 16 for Gold River, about 40 kilometres away. He was at the controls of an Air Nootka de Havilland Beaver when it left Hesquiat Lake the morning of Aug. Coroners Service, owned Air Nootka with his wife from 1994 to 2006. ![]() Howatt, whose identity was confirmed Friday by the B.C. The pilot killed in an Air Nootka crash last week, 66-year-old Grant Clifford Howatt of Ladysmith, was a former owner of the float-plane company. ![]()
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