Complex sentence: He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1999, and died at the age of 76 on the Fraser River in British Columbia as he was practising flying an LA4 buccaneer amphibious plane by landing and taking off.
Split into simpler sentences: He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1999. He died at the age of 76 on the Fraser River in British Columbia as he was practising flying an LA4 buccaneer amphibious plane by landing and taking off.