Tributes are pouring in online for the two men who died in a plane crash in Tofino, B.C. earlier this week.
The victims have been identified by community members as veterinarians from California: Frank Borostyankoi and Chris Biggerstaff. The pair were reportedly close friends on the way home from an annual fishing trip to B.C. when the engine of their small private plane caught fire during takeoff.
The third person aboard the six-seat plane was pulled out of the aircraft and taken to hospital with serious injuries.
“Chris was extraordinary human being,” reads a post on a Facebook page for the Modoc High School class of 1982. “His love of fishing took him everywhere and that’s what he was doing in Canada.”
“(Biggerstaff) will be missed by so many people in this world,” it says.
Dr. Chris Biggerstaff, one of the victims of a July 18 plane crash in Tofino, …