Airport shuttle driver Sean Carter has lived in the remote northern British Columbia community of Bella Bella for almost nine years and says the small coastal village occasionally gets a celebrity visit.

Maybe a movie star or former athlete on a fishing trip. But nothing too high profile.

He said that was why he initially ignored a private jet at the local airport on Saturday — until he heard a commotion and people pulled out phones to take photos of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.

But Carter did make sure to see Musk when he flew out on Monday, after getting a tip that he was on his way back to the airport in a helicopter.

“Sure enough, yeah, the helijet came back maybe an hour, half an hour later, and Elon Musk was the first guy,” Carter said.

“I had my big super-zoom camera wit

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