NOT KNOWN FACTUAL STATEMENTS ABOUT SHANE BRANIFF KELOWNA

They ended up returning to Shreveport from a little duck searching lake in the vicinity of Lake Charles, Louisiana, in the Grumman Mallard plane without any deicing system. The wings iced up on approach to landing in Shreveport, plus the plane shed altitude. Among the list of wings hit cypress stumps as well as the plane crashed against the shore.