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INVESTIGATORS FROM several agencies are
scouring the Fisherman’s Cove area and talking to
witnesses as they attempt to determine what caused
a collision between some B.C. Hydro wires and a

float plane Sunday.

“His floats went right
through the wires,”’ said Kim
Hennecker, who witnessed
the incident from the deck of
a boat he was working on.
“There were sparks from
both ends of the wires. His
plane wavered a little bit but |
don"t think the guy even
knew what had happencd.”’

“The guy’’ was pilot
Douglas Hogarth, who land-
ed the plane in Howe Sound
just after the incident and
taxied it to a dock on Eagle
Island where he is believed to
have been visiting friends.

Because of the accident his
friends — and the other
residents of Eagle Island —
were without power for

about nine hours.

Hennecker said planes that
do appear in the Fisherman’s
Cove area usually land in the
Sound and taxi in from there.

**This guy was right out of

line,”’ Hennecker said. ‘‘!
couldn't believe he was com-
ing in like that.’’

Hennccker first noticed the
plane as it banked around
Eagle Island before heading
out and into the power lines.

The Ministry of Transport
and B.C. Hydro both have
investigators looking into the
incident and Hydro is
especially interested in what
its people find

dn’t believe if’—witness

In January of this year,
after the mast of a large sail
boat took out one of the two
lines to Eagle Island, Hydro
re-applied to the Ministry of
Transport for a permit for
the lines to determine how
they should be marked as a
possible navigation hazard.

Since then the company
has telephoned the MoT
twice — the last time on
Monday — in attempts to
have the application
‘“expedited’’.

One boater who uses the
channel regularly said he
noted the current warning
marker Thursday, only three
days before the incident.

According to the man, the
fluorescent flag attached to
the wires that bears the
message ‘‘Danger, High Ten-
sion Wires’’ has become tat-
tered, torn and = smudged
“until it is only a few scraps
of cloth ”’

- Van budget concerns
on their way fo Victoria

DESPITE CHARGES they were simply baiting the
provincial government, West Van municipal coun-
cil has approved a motion expressing concerns over
provincial government legislation.

ALD. DAVID FINLAY
.-. 008 herring

The motion, whtch
acknowledges the need for a
*‘repriorizing of Provincial

services in difficult
cconomic times, expresses the
Council's concern that reduc.
thon tn some Human
Resource Programs and
overall funding in this arca
**will cause hardship and may

cause an immediate incrcase
in costs in other arcas.”’

Ald. David Finlay wasn't
tmpressed, charging the mo-
tion was a ‘‘red herring"
designed to bait the provin
cial government

The resolution also said
Council was worried a reduc-
tion in financing of preven

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