Lydia Aboulian was getting ready for another day of campaigning in Laval’s Sainte-Dorothée district with a volunteer on Wednesday morning when her efforts to win a council seat were interrupted by an unexpected noise.
 
“We both heard a loud plane sound,” said Aboulian, who was collecting some supplies in her kitchen at the time.
 
“We were kind of alarmed. We looked out the window and we saw this hydroplane dive into the water nose first and we saw it flip a couple of times.”
 
Then it started sinking into the Rivière des Prairies, a river that divides Montreal from Laval. 
 
“It flipped onto its