Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral Saturday for a woman and her baby who died aboard a float plane that crashed in the water off B.C.'s Gulf Islands.
Dr. Kerry Margaret Morrissey and her six-month-old daughter Sarah were among six people who died last Sunday when a Seaair float plane went down during takeoff in Lyall Harbour, off Saturna Island.
Many of the 1,200 mourners at the Vancouver church remembered Morrissey as a fine physician.
The 41-year-old was an obstetrician who also did charity work in South America.
She leaves behind a husband and another young daughter.
Two people -- the pilot and a female passenger -- survived after being rescued within minutes of the crash.
Bill Yearwood, an investigator with the Transportation Safety Board, has said it could be months before the cause of the crash is determined because the plane needs to be taken apart and examined.
The single-engine de Havilland Canada Beaver was owned by Seair Seaplanes of Richmond, B.C.
Seair manager Terry Hiebert has said the pilot had six years experience, three of them with Seair.
The other crash victims were identified as Thomas Gordon Glenn of White Rock, B.C., and Cindy Shafer and Richard Bruce Haskett of California, who were part-time residents of Saturna Island.
The island is located at the eastern edge of the Gulf Islands, more than 50 kilometres south of Vancouver.
