By Sam Borsato - @BorsatoSam on Twitter and Lara Fominoff @fomsy1 on Twitter

Lethbridge woman aboard missing plane, police asking for information

Jun 9, 2017 | 9:36 PM

CRANBROOK – UPDATE June 11 –  Search efforts Saturday (June 10) were hampered by poor weather, rocky and heavily treed terrain. The search for the plane continues today.  Anyone who may have seen the aircraft or has relevant information is asked to call the search and rescue tip line at 205-331-1967.

UPDATE: 10:00 AM  June 10- Lethbridge News Now has spoken with Excel Flight School President Roland Morton, who tells us the plane Alex Simons, 21, and Sydney Robillard, 21 were flying in was rented from them.

Morton says the plane is a 4- seater Piper Warrior and Simons was trained at the school, receiving his private pilot’s license not long ago.

The last known contact from the plane was at 10:30 am Thursday morning in Lethbridge before the plane took off for Cranbrook, and Morton says the company is helping Joint Search Co-ordination Centre in Victoria as much as they can.

He says thoughts and prayers are going out to the families from all of their staff.

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Cranbrook RCMP have confirmed that a Lethbridge woman and a Kamloops man were on board a missing aircraft.

Around 6:22 p.m. on Thursday (June 8), the RCMP Southeast District Operational Communications Center received a report that a small plane departed from the Cranbrook airport around 3:02 p.m., but did not arrive at its destination in Kamloops. The Joint Search Co-ordination Center Victoria (JRCC) was notified at that time.

It has been established that the aircraft had initially departed from Lethbridge at 10:35 a.m.. A stop was made at the Cranbrook airport for re-fuelling, which is the last known point of contact. 

The Piper aircraft call letters are CGDTK. It was piloted by Alex Simons, 21 from Kamloops, with Sydney Robillard, 24 from Lethbridge, as a passenger.

To date, RCMP detachments in the Southeast District with airfields in their jurisdictions have made inquiries, but with negative results.

Family support and contact is being conducted by the Kamloops RCMP. Cranbrook RCMP are supporting the JRCC with the search.

Anyone with information is urged to contact their local police or RCMP right away.