Quebec premier offers condolences after all victims recovered from helicopter crash

By Canadian Press on June 26, 2025.

MONTRÉAL — Quebec’s premier is offering his condolences to the victims of an air ambulance crash on Quebec’s North Shore that killed three crew members and a patient.

In a post on the X platform, François Legault also thanked Quebec provincial police and members of the Canadian Armed Forces who had searched for the victims.

Montreal-area transport company Airmedic confirmed late Wednesday the two missing crew members and the patient had been found in Lake Watshishou by provincial police divers.

Among the five people aboard the helicopter, one crew member survived Friday’s crash and the body of another was found Monday evening.

The coroner’s office says it is working to officially confirm the identities of the four dead.

The crew were performing a medical transport when the helicopter crashed north of Natashquan, about 1,000 kilometres northeast of Montreal.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 25, 2025.

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