In support of the SdQ, a @RCAF_ARC CC-130 Hercules (424 Squadron) and CH-146 Griffon (439 Squadron) safely located a missing snowmobiler near Lac St-Jean, Qué. today. The person was found by the Griffon helicopter and transported to hospital (1/2). pic.twitter.com/4DvJtre5NQ

— Trenton JRCC CCCOS (@JRCCTrentCCCOS) April 1, 2019

The tiny point of light is a flare illuminating the snowmobiler’s position, just prior to extraction by the CH-146 Griffon (2/2). pic.twitter.com/g1a9iBg3CO

— Trenton JRCC CCCOS (@JRCCTrentCCCOS) April 1, 2019

I’ve instigated(?) two rescues in my life because I was the only person to see a signal flare. Once in SF bay, and once in the Sierra. Both times I thought about how brief that signal flare was visible. The sierra rescue happened when the hiker popped the flare as the helicopter was heading directly away from him and they didn’t see it. We were climbing Horsetail Falls and saw it and waved the helicopter back and pointed to the hiker on the ridge above us. The flare was up for maybe 3 seconds.