NHL player helps save pilot after terrible plane crash

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Dorin Canaday
July 24, 2022 (4:59 PM)

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NHL players would most likely prefer to spend some of their summer days relaxing and enjoying the time off.

That's what one Montreal Canadiens forward was trying to do when the unthinkable happened.

Canadiens forward Paul Byron was enjoying time on the water with his brother-in-law, Neal Leblond, his father-in-law, Jean Leblond and a family friend, Jonathan Legault, when the three witnessed a plane crash in the water close to them.

Neal Leblond said this about the incident:

''The seaplane would have plunged violently towards the lake at the time of the crash. The craft then fell overturned in shallow water.''

Another on the scene was Serge Labelle, who was riding his jet ski near by and also the first to rescue the pilot.

Byron and Leblond would come and help rescue the pilot making sure he was alright.

�'Paul jumped into the water before me. There was metal everywhere, gas, the engine was hot. Paul took charge of the man. We risked our lives going into the water.''

Paul Byron confirmed the story to RDS but didn't consider himself a hero, saying he just did the right thing.

The pilot of the plane was sent to hospital in serious conditions. If not for Byron and others this could of ended more tragically.