Parks Canada staff have found a dog who survived a plane crash that killed his owner earlier this week.
The parks service says a rescue team found Rusty alive and well this afternoon near the crash site in Yoho National Park in the Rocky Mountains.
The border collie survived the crash that killed the 60-year-old pilot Wednesday but ran off into the bush, where he was missing for a couple of days.
The man, whose name has not been released, was flying his Cessna 180 from Vulcan, Alta., to Springfield, B.C., just outside Williams Lake, when the plane's emergency locator beacon went off.
Rusty is on his way to a veterinarian, where he will spend the night under a watchful eye before he is picked up tomorrow by his owner's next of kin.
RCMP and the Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.
Rusty, a border collie, rides a ski-doo with Parks Canada's Visitor Safety Specialist J.P. Kors in Yoho National Park, B.C. on Friday April 29, 2011.
