Plane hit power lines before crash

RICHMOND (CP) — A Transportation Safety Board report says a small plane that vanished in B.C.’s Fraser River last June hit a power line before sinking into the river.

The Cessna 172M left Boundary Bay Airport on June 6 with two men aboard, an instructor and his student.

The report says the plane was flying in Abbotsford, along the river at a low altitude and was just 38 metres above the water when it clipped a power line.

Witnesses who called 911 reported seeing a low-flying plane, a splash and then the partially submerged plane on the river.

When emergency responders arrived, the plane had disappeared and a search over several months using divers, underwater imaging and other equipment has found no trace of the plane or its occupants.