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The search is over for a Calgary-based geophysicist and his passenger aboard a small plane that went missing on its way to B.C.

The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (JRCC) in Victoria confirmed the Cessna 182P single-engine aircraft belonging to Ken Umbach of Calgary has been found around 30 kilometres northeast of Hope, B.C.

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Both occupants on board have been pronounced dead.

“This case has been passed to the B.C. Coroner’s Service and B.C. RCMP,” the centre said in a statement. “The JRCC’s thoughts are with the loved ones of the two individuals who were aboard the aircraft.”

The plane left Springbank Airport, just west of Calgary, about 10 a.m. on Thursday. The two people on board the plane were on a route to Kelowna, Hope and Boundary Bay, B.C., with a planned stop in Nanaimo.

The rescue centre says the plane’s electronic locator transmitter was activated some 160 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, about two hours after the plane left Calgary.