Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2005 21:58:06 GMT -5
Aother fatal black bear attack:
Source: The Vancouver Sun, Friday, June 17, 2005
Man shoots bear that killed his father
Bear charges wife and son of bush pilot found dead behind cabin at N.W.T. sport fishing camp
FORT SMITH. N.W.T. — Jean Carter stepped out of a float plane expecting to see her husband.
Instead, she was confronted by a black bear that she later learned had killed him.
Lifelong bush pilot Merlyn Carter, 71, was found dead Wednesday behind the main cabin of their remote sport fishing camp about 300 kilometers northeast of Fort Smith.
He had gone to the fishing camp on Tuesday to prepare the cabins and boats for the start of the season, expecting his first group of fishermen to arrive Friday, said his eldest son, Dean.
Carter made radio contact with his family Tuesday around 10 p.m., telling them everything was fine and the camp was coming along nicely.
Jean and another son, Myles, flew to the camp Wednesday to bring in groceries and other supplies.
But Merlyn wasn’t at the docks to meet them. When Jean got off their Cessna 180, she spotted the bear coming toward her.
She tried heading back to the plane, but the bear caught up.
“She didn’t make it back to the airplane,” Dean Carter said.
“They were screaming, trying to scare the bear off.”
The bear was frothing at the mouth as it crouched before Jean.
Myles grabbed a ramp used to unload barrels of oil from the aircraft and struck the bear across the face. It stopped, looking stunned.
Then the bear turned and left in the opposite direction of the cabin.
Myles grabbed a gun and from the main cabin and shot the bear four times. RCMP say the bear was a two-year-old male.
Myles found his father’s body a short distance from the side of the cabin. His father was unarmed.
The family isn’t sure what time he was attacked, but have been told an autopsy will be conducted.
“As tragic as it is, they’re very fortunate two of them survived,” Dean Carter said.
The Carters ran Carter Air Services and the Nonacho Lake Fishing Camp.
Canadian Press
Source: The Vancouver Sun, Friday, June 17, 2005
Man shoots bear that killed his father
Bear charges wife and son of bush pilot found dead behind cabin at N.W.T. sport fishing camp
FORT SMITH. N.W.T. — Jean Carter stepped out of a float plane expecting to see her husband.
Instead, she was confronted by a black bear that she later learned had killed him.
Lifelong bush pilot Merlyn Carter, 71, was found dead Wednesday behind the main cabin of their remote sport fishing camp about 300 kilometers northeast of Fort Smith.
He had gone to the fishing camp on Tuesday to prepare the cabins and boats for the start of the season, expecting his first group of fishermen to arrive Friday, said his eldest son, Dean.
Carter made radio contact with his family Tuesday around 10 p.m., telling them everything was fine and the camp was coming along nicely.
Jean and another son, Myles, flew to the camp Wednesday to bring in groceries and other supplies.
But Merlyn wasn’t at the docks to meet them. When Jean got off their Cessna 180, she spotted the bear coming toward her.
She tried heading back to the plane, but the bear caught up.
“She didn’t make it back to the airplane,” Dean Carter said.
“They were screaming, trying to scare the bear off.”
The bear was frothing at the mouth as it crouched before Jean.
Myles grabbed a ramp used to unload barrels of oil from the aircraft and struck the bear across the face. It stopped, looking stunned.
Then the bear turned and left in the opposite direction of the cabin.
Myles grabbed a gun and from the main cabin and shot the bear four times. RCMP say the bear was a two-year-old male.
Myles found his father’s body a short distance from the side of the cabin. His father was unarmed.
The family isn’t sure what time he was attacked, but have been told an autopsy will be conducted.
“As tragic as it is, they’re very fortunate two of them survived,” Dean Carter said.
The Carters ran Carter Air Services and the Nonacho Lake Fishing Camp.
Canadian Press