Family turned away from plane crash site

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Royal Canadian Mounted Police turned away three family members trying to reach a remote weekend plane crash site that killed seven people.

RCMP spokesman Cpl. Peter Thiessen said officers were posted on the mountainside crash site on Thormanby Island off Vancouver after the Pacific Coastal Airlines Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft went down and burned Sunday morning, The Province newspaper in Vancouver reported Tuesday.

"We really don't feel it was something they wanted to see," Thiessen said.

The family used a chartered boat to reach the island Monday and planned on hiking two miles up to the crash site, the report said.

The pilot and seven hydro electric employees were bound for a project further north up the coast in cloudy and foggy conditions. The plane hit a tree and crashed on the mountain about 20 minutes after take-off, officials said.

One man survived and is hospitalized for burns and fractures.

Coroner's officials were scheduled to arrive at the site Tuesday to remove the remains of the victims, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.