Four are dead after a Hughes MD 500 plunged into a icy, swift flowing river near Prince Rupert British, Columbia.

A rescue team parachuted into the crash site and found the destroyed helicopter upside down in the Kitsault River. Removal of the victims was a very difficult operation

"It's not how we would have liked it to end," said Second-Lt. Jill Strelieff of the Victoria Rescue Co-ordination Centre.