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Reported Distress Call By Plane In Southern Alberta Not True: Air Force

The Canadian Press, 14 Sep, 2015 10:40 AM
    MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — A report of an aircraft distress call that prompted officials to close part of the Trans-Canada Highway in Alberta for a possible emergency landing has turned out to be false.
     
    Medicine Hat police say a radio operator reported hearing a plane calling for help Sunday night in the region.
     
    As a precaution police closed part of the highway from about 7:30 p.m. until 8:50 p.m. for use as a makeshift landing strip.
     
    But authorities could not make contact with any pilot and there was no reports of a missing plane.
     
    The Royal Canadian Air Force scrambled a CC-130 Hercules rescue aircraft out of Winnipeg, but later determined the distress call was false.
     
    Capt. Wright Eruebi, a military spokesman, says search and rescue officials always investigate such calls and assume that lives are in danger.

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