Seven dead in explosive B.C. plane crash

B.C. - Seven people died and one man was in hospital with severe burns after their plane slammed into a steep hillside on the Sunshine Coast Sunday, marking the second deadly crash for Pacific Coastal Airlines in just four months.

The pilot and seven men were aboard a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft en route from Vancouver to Powell River - and ultimately a Plutonic Power work camp at Toba Inlet - when the plane crashed on south Thormanby Island and burst into flames.