In a previous article, Jay Honeck said:
Today, that plane crashed, and my friend and probably his plane partner
are both dead.

Dang, that sucks. Sorry to hear it.

As info becomes available, please share it here. All we can do to
honor their memory is to learn from their tragedy.

http://www.rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?...&catego ry=10

They were leaving on a fishing trip to Quebec.

Witnesses say they took off to the north as usual, but weren't gaining
altitude very quickly, turned as if to land to the south, but didn't land,
went past the end of the bay, and crashed not far from the end of the bay.
There are some hills around there.

I wonder if they were overloaded or not developing full power, returned
for a landing, and then couldn't land because a boat or kayak got in their
way, and then did a departure stall trying to avoid the hills.

I've flown with Mike and he seemed like he did a thorough pre-flight every
time, and was a good and careful pilot. I've never flown with Dave. Dave
lost his medical and they bought a Taylorcraft so that Dave could fly
under light sport rules. They crashed that last year (NTSB says
"unexplained loss of power, and slightly over gross"), and bought a Legend
Cub as well as keeping the Cessna.

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