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Article: Passengers preparing for Christmas (plane crash near Little Grand Rapids First Nation reserve).
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- January 1, 1998
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Windspeaker Staff Writer
LITTLE GRAND
RAPIDS, Man.
Seven of the 17 people aboard a small plane that crashed near the Little Grand Rapids First Nation in eastern Manitoba were tribal council staff members on their way to help with a Christmas party at the neighboring Pauingassi First Nation.
"They were going up there to help prepare Christmas dinner for the community," said Manitoba's Southeast Tribal Council Executive Director Joe Malcolm. "Six of them were child and family service workers and the other was a maintenance worker."
The maintenance worker was one of four people killed in the crash. Included in the dead were a ...