Investigators hope the surviving pilot of a float plane that crashed off one of British Columbia's Gulf Islands will tell them what went wrong.

Six people were killed in the crash of the Seair Seaplanes flight shortly after taking off from Saturna Island.

The pilot has undergone surgery for his injuries and is recovering in hospital.

A woman passenger also survived the crash.

Police identified the victims yesterday as details of the tragic accident began to emerge.

James White -- one of the first rescuers to arrive at the scene of the crash - described the screams for help coming from a woman in the water.

Then, White said, he saw the pilot who looked "pretty distressed."

When asked how many people were on board, White said the pilot, who was inconsolable, replied "I've killed them all."

Vancouver doctor Kerry Margaret Morrissey and her six-month-old-baby Sarah were among the victims.

The forty-one-year-old mother of two worked at the Vancouver-based South Community Birth Program.

She leaves behind her husband and a two-year-old daughter, who relatives say has "already been asking her dad why mommy's not coming back."

Also killed in the crash were Catherine White-Holman, 55, of Vancouver, Thomas Gordon Glenn, 60, of White Rock, B-C.

California residents -- Cindy Shafer, 44, and Richard Bruce Haskett, 49, were also killed.