Good work! Parks Canada kept the find, made in 2009, a secret until the US Joint Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command could retrieve the human remains.
Parks Canada - Discovery in the St. Lawrence
"Parks Canadas underwater archaeologists, who regularly carry out surveys related to national historic sites and national parks, discovered the wreck of a plane while conducting work in an area adjacent to the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve of Canada. They believe it is a US Army Air Force PBY 5A airplane, sunk off the coast near the village of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan in 1942.
There were nine persons on board when the aircraft foundered. Four of the crew escaped the flooding plane and were rescued by local fishermen rowing out from shore in open boats in rough seas. The five others perished, trapped in the aircraft by the swift flooding of the fuselage. Side-scan sonar data indicates that the plane appears to be in very good condition, and there is a possibility of finding human remains."
U.S. recovers apparent remains of WWII airmen
"Parks Canada discovered the plane in 2009 while conducting a survey near the village of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan in eastern Quebec. Earlier this month, the Joint Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command, a federal agency that works to recover members of the military who are missing in action, dispatched a 50-person team on the USS Grapple to investigate the site in the hopes of recovering the remains of the missing."
Parks Canada - Discovery in the St. Lawrence
"Parks Canadas underwater archaeologists, who regularly carry out surveys related to national historic sites and national parks, discovered the wreck of a plane while conducting work in an area adjacent to the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve of Canada. They believe it is a US Army Air Force PBY 5A airplane, sunk off the coast near the village of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan in 1942.
There were nine persons on board when the aircraft foundered. Four of the crew escaped the flooding plane and were rescued by local fishermen rowing out from shore in open boats in rough seas. The five others perished, trapped in the aircraft by the swift flooding of the fuselage. Side-scan sonar data indicates that the plane appears to be in very good condition, and there is a possibility of finding human remains."
U.S. recovers apparent remains of WWII airmen
"Parks Canada discovered the plane in 2009 while conducting a survey near the village of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan in eastern Quebec. Earlier this month, the Joint Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command, a federal agency that works to recover members of the military who are missing in action, dispatched a 50-person team on the USS Grapple to investigate the site in the hopes of recovering the remains of the missing."
