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Attempted theft of seaplane ends with collision in Vancouver harbour

Feb 21, 2020 | 1:47 PM

VANCOUVER — Police in Vancouver are investigating after a float plane was badly damaged in what appears to have been a botched theft.

Const. Tanya Visintin says officers were called to the city’s waterfront about 3:30 a.m. after a report of a plane.

She says a man had begun moving the Harbour Air float plane, but crashed it into a second aircraft.

Visintin doesn’t say if the first plane ever got into the air, but she says its wing was torn off in the collision.