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Day 3 - Friday, March 22, 2019
The day started with a long drive to site. The road
was fair in the morning due to the frost. The crew is
now comprised of 14 people. We set up tents and
organized gear before visitors arrived bringing lunch
and stories about the Cessna crash. The diver from
Cessna Airplane Recovery Ontario made the first dive and attached a down line
From Peter Pond Lake to the airplane. We left the site for Buffalo around
By Dorrin Wallace 5:00 pm but the road had deteriorated badly and two
vehicles had gotten stuck on the bush road. We
After almost sixty years the final resting place of
worked together to pull each other out and arrived
Cessna 180 CF-JDO has been found in Peter Pond Lake back at Buffalo. The day was finished. We went for
(a 552-square-kilometre lake near Buffalo Narrows).
supper together and met two more family members.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Day 4 - Saturday, March 23, 2019
We started the day blowing out a tire on the terrible
bush road. After that, the five-truck caravan arrived
safely to site, including Perry and Cory, the two newly
arrived family members of the conservation officer,
Harold Thompson. More work was done on site
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 including the prepping of the second tent for set up
The plans for diving on the Cessna 180 in Peter Pond and another dive was performed to collect footage of
Lake are progressing quite nicely. It’s looking like the the airplane. A second dive was planned for later
End of March. today to recover artifacts after sufficient time was
Day 1 - Wednesday, March 20, 2019 allowed for the divers to rest. We had visitors from
The day started with the long drive to Buffalo Narrows Michel Village who offered to help cut more holes in
from Saskatoon and on the drive I received a phone the ice, including the 93 year old elder who heard the
call from the Saskatchewan provincial government original accident happen. We blew the spare tire on
with permission to raise the airplane. Upon our the way home, again on the bush road, but this was
arrival in Buffalo we went to Peter Pond Lake and the last trip down that trail as the rest of the crew
found the road plowed to site. The first conundrum travelled home on an alternate route via Michel
was the bobcat opening the road on the lake. More Village. A replacement tire was generously donated
people arrived after supper. We are meeting at 8:30 by Peter LaPrise from Buffalo Narrows.
am tomorrow (Thursday) at the lake to go to site and
start the days adventure.
Day 2 - Thursday, March 21, 2019
We arrived at the lakeside at 8:30 am and met with
the crew. We made our way out onto the ice. The
first task accomplished was the removal of the broken
bobcat from site. Once it was out of the way the Twigg & Company Chartered
snow removal was continued and completed by the Professional Accountants
replacement bobcat. We received some extra 650 Regency Center
unexpected help from locals from Michel Village who 333 - 25th Street East
aided in the cutting of the ice. A family member of Saskatoon, SK S7K 0L4
the pilot and the third diver arrived by air in the Main Number 306-244-0808
afternoon. The photographer made it to Buffalo Fax 306-244-0004
Narrows in the evening.
Email: twigg.ca@sasktel.net
