Winnipeg monument for plane crash victims unveiled [Video]

A new monument honouring the victims of a plane crash in Winnipeg in 1972 was unveiled Wednesday afternoon.

On June 24, 1972, a plane carrying eight residential school students to Bunibonibee Cree Nation crashed into a vacant lot on Linwood Street.

All eight students died, along with the pilot.

Now, a monument has been installed along Yellow Ribbon Greenway Trail near Silver Avenue at Linwood Street.

“The devastating plane crash that claimed the lives of young people from our Nation is forever etched in our hearts and minds. Particularly heartbreaking is that we will never know how greatly these young people could’ve impacted our world if they were still with us today,” said Bunibonibee Cree Nation Chief Richard Hart in a news release.

The victims were Margaret Robinson, Mary Rita Canada, Ethel Grieves, Rosalie Balfour, Wilkie Muskego, Iona Weenusk, Roy and Deborah Sinclair, and pilot Wilbur Coughlin.

A list of the eight kids who died in a plane …