Saskatchewan filmmaker documents 77-year-old plane wreck for first time

For Saskatchewan filmmaker Scott Woroniuk, setting out to document a historic plane wreck in the province’s muskeg region was his most ambitious project yet.

While Woroniuk has worked on several films before, he says nothing compares to his experience of going directly to the site of Saskatchewan’s wetlands in pursuit of retelling a 77-year-old tale of a downed plane.

“It’s waist-deep, it’s cold, it’s miserable, it’s sticky,” Woroniuk said. “It’s not a fun place trying to walk around.”

Woroniuk’s documentary tells the story of a September 1948 U.S Navy flight that was en route to Manitoba’s The Pas from Churchill when it went missing.

The ensuing large-scale search and rescue operation led by The Royal Canadian Air Force with assistance from the American military was called Operati