Search for 4 missing people after air ambulance crash resumes on Quebec's North Shore

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 22, 2025 12:28 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Quebec provincial constabulary accidental they're searching Watshishou Lake, connected the North Shore, for 4 radical who went missing aft their chopper crashed Friday night.

Divers with the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) are joining a hunt enactment involving the Canadian Armed Forces Sunday. The hunt for the missing radical aboard the chopper had to beryllium paused overnight.

The SQ was alerted to the clang astir 10:30 p.m. Friday. The Airmedic chopper carrying 4 unit members and 1 passenger, was successful the process of a aesculapian evacuation erstwhile it crashed into a water soon aft takeoff, according to Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB). 

One of the unit members managed to escape, confirmed Airmedic, successful circumstances that are inactive unclear. The person was transported to infirmary with non-life-threatening injuries, the SQ said connected Saturday.

The Royal Canadian Air Force is besides participating successful the search, said Lieutenant-Commander Len Hickey, elder nationalist affairs serviceman for Joint Task Force Headquarters.

The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre successful Halifax has dispatched a CC-130 Hercules and a CH-149 Cormorant chopper to assist, the serviceman said.

The TSB has opened an probe into the crash. Quebec's workplace information committee (CNESST) has besides gotten involved.

Airmedic called the incidental a calamity that has profoundly shaken its team, it wrote successful an emailed statement.

"Due to this, absorption has temporarily suspended operations successful bid to prioritize the well-being of our teams and supply them with each the indispensable support," the institution wrote.

Watshishou Lake is astir 50 kilometres northbound from the enactment of the Jacques Cartier Strait and conscionable nether 900 kilometres northeast from Quebec City.