Crown outlines case against three accused in Lac-Mégantic disaster

SHERBROOKE — Around 7:30 p.m. on July 6, 2013, Sûreté du Québec crime-scene investigator Steven Montembeault boarded a helicopter from a dock in Lac-Mégantic, hovered above the town’s namesake lake and flew toward its downtown core.
Onboard with a pilot, copilot and another police officer, Montembeault was in charge of capturing the area from above with a handheld camera. He flew over rows of houses, passing fields and forests below. Mountains cou