Air Force will end search for missing Quebec businessman and his son

MONTREAL — The Royal Canadian Air Force says it will spend one final day searching for a missing Quebec businessman and his son before handing the case over to the provincial police.

Stephane Roy and his 14-year-old son Justin were reported missing on July 11 after failing to return home from a fishing trip in Lac de la Bidiere, a remote area in the upper Laurentians regions west of La Tuque, Que.

The pair were aboard Roy’s Robinson R44 helicopter.

A statement from the air force today says it will make the “difficult decision” to reduce its search operations and relinquish the case to the provincial police as a missing persons investigation.