Survivor of airplane crash faces surgery

Edmonton: The sole survivor of a fatal plane crash on the B.C. coast last weekend faces surgery on both of his badly burned hands, his brother told reporters here.
Tom Wilson will likely be in hospital for another three weeks, his brother, Michael, said Friday.
Two other Edmonton-area men were among seven who died in the crash.
According to their employer, St. Albert's Ajay Cariappa and Edmonton's Kyle Adams died when the twin-engine Grumman Goose smashed into the side of a cliff.
Cariappa was a 34-year-old project engineer with Peter Kiewit Sons Co., while Adams, 29, worked for the company as a maintenance engineer.
Sherry vander Heide of Edmonton was the first person Cariappa called when he was about to leave town for work, and the first person he called just before he returned.
Cariappa called her last Sunday from Vancouver to let her know he was about to board a plane bound for Powell River, and to confirm his presence at vander Heide's Grey Cup party this weekend.
"He wasn't really a big football fan, but he wanted to be there because of me," said vander Heide, her voice breaking.
She said Cariappa, 34, who emigrated from India, had lived in the Edmonton area since moving here five years ago from the East Coast.
He lived by himself in a house he owned in St. Albert, where vander Heide said much of his leisure time was spent immersed in books.
23/11/08 Canwest News Service/The Province, Canada

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