{"id":14271,"date":"2020-05-01T14:34:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14271"},"modified":"2020-05-01T14:34:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:34:18","slug":"five-missing-from-rcaf-helicopter-crash-presumed-deceased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14271","title":{"rendered":"Five missing from RCAF helicopter crash presumed deceased"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EAST HANTS:<\/strong> The search for five missing Cyclone helicopter crew members has transitioned into a search and recovery efforts, the Department of National Defence said in a release on May 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sub-Lieutenant Matthew Pyke, a former volunteer firefighter from the Rawdon and Gore area, was among the five who are presumed to have died when the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CH-148 Cyclone went down. It crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, April 29. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pyke was a Naval Warfare Officer who is originally from Truro, Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At this time, one member, Sub-Lieutenant Abbigail Cowbrough, a Marine Systems Engineering Officer, originally from Toronto, Ontario, has been confirmed deceased. She now called the Eastern Passage area home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other missing four members who were aboard the aircraft are now officially considered missing and presumed deceased:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Captain Brenden Ian MacDonald, Pilot, originally from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia<\/li>
  • Captain Kevin Hagen, Pilot, originally from Nanaimo, British Columbia<\/li>
  • Captain Maxime Miron-Morin, Air Combat Systems Officer, originally from Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Qu\u00e9bec<\/li>
  • Master Corporal Matthew Cousins, Airborne Electronic Sensor Operator, originally from Guelph, Ontario<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Additional remains have been discovered during the search, but cannot be identified at this time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) will be doing everything possible over the next several days to confirm known details with the families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    NATO Allies will be continuing recovery efforts at the scene as HMCS Fredericton<\/em> departs for port in Italy. The ship is expected to arrive the morning of May 2, 2020, local time in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A RCAF Flight Safety team will depart Canada today to investigate the circumstances of the accident. They will begin their work immediately upon arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The helicopter was deployed with HMCS Fredericton<\/em> in the Mediterranean Sea as part of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 under Operation REASSURANCE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    At the time of the accident, the Canadian ship was conducting collaborative training with Italian and Turkish ships. The Cyclone was conducting concurrent flight operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    EAST HANTS: The search for five missing Cyclone helicopter crew members has transitioned into a search and recovery efforts, the Department of National Defence said in a release on May 1. Sub-Lieutenant Matthew Pyke, a former volunteer firefighter from the Rawdon and Gore area, was among the five who are presumed to have died when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[196,1063,1064,1065],"class_list":["post-14271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-east-hants","tag-hmcs-fredericton","tag-matthew-pyke","tag-royal-canadian-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}