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Originally published Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 3:20 PM

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8 people on plane that crashed off Canadian coast

Search and rescue crews are on scene off of Canada's British Columbia Sunshine Coast where a Grummond Goose plane has gone down near Thormandy Island.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia —

Search and rescue crews are on scene off of Canada's British Columbia Sunshine Coast where a Grummond Goose plane has gone down near Thormandy Island.

The Joint Rescue Coorindation Center in Victoria, British Columbia, confirms eight people were on board.

Lt. Marguerite Dodds-Lapinski said there was no confirmation on survivors yet.

She says the rescue center received a call from someone in the area Sunday morning saying they had heard a plane crash.

Rescue officials dispatched several search and rescue planes as well as a Coast Guard hovercraft to the scene.

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