Plane crashes on Quebec’s North Shore

On Monday morning, the Sûreté du Québec confirmed that four people had been found dead and the search for the remaining two occupants resumed with the SQ helicopter ferrying searchers to the crash site.

The Foreign Office is looking into reports that four Britons are among six people who died in a light aircraft crash in Canada at the weekend.

Quebec provincial police say the Air Saguenay plane went down six kilometres from the community of Bergeronnes.

They say the wreckage was not accessible by road, and was located with the help of parachutists from the Canadian Armed Forces.

AP also reported that an Air Saguenay official said the seaplane was taking part in a routine sightseeing flight, which was only supposed to last 20 minutes.

The plane was being flown by an experienced pilot with 14 years of experience, Mr Tremblay told local media. The four British victims of the crash have not been identified.

Air Saguenay installed a new security system following a July 2010 crash in Chutes-des-Passes, near Lac Saint Jean.

On its website, the airline says that it provides flights for sight seeing, canoeing expeditions, fishing and hunting trips as well as general charters.