Plane Crashes into Transmission Shop in Richmond.

At 10:15 pm on Friday July 10th 2009 a plane carrying a cargo of blood crashed into the rear lot of an auto shop in Richmond BC killing both souls on board.

The twin-engine Piper Navajo PA-31 is part of the fleet of Canadian Air Charters of Richmond.

RCMP spokesman Peter Thiessen said "We received a call at 10:15 p.m. in regards to a plane crash behind here," Thiessen said Friday morning. "Unfortunately two occupants in the plane were deceased. The plane was en route to a landing at Vancouver airport.

"Witnesses proved us with information that there was some kind of difficulty with the aircraft - some level of fire prior to impact. After impact, there was a significant fire - very intense. In fact, there's not much left that would resemble an aircraft."

According to Canadian Blood Services employee Pennie Arnason the two pilots were in good spirits before leaving Cassidy Airport in Nanaimo.

Arnason said 145 units of blood were being transported to Vancouver from Nanaimo and Victoria.

The pilots left Nanaimo at 8:20 p.m. and flew to Victoria to pick up more blood. They were chartering an eight-seat Navajo Piper aircraft.

Canadian Blood Services had chartered the plane from Richmond-based Canadian Air Charters for the flight from Victoria.

-story from vancouver sun

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[youidiot222]

NOTE: This is an old video from July. I had forgotten to upload it so I am doing it now.

[firepoliceambulance]

its bin awhile bcfiretrucks bin updated

[zootoo63]

lol. nice. did the shop get fixed?