KALISPELL, Mont. - A Canadian man who pleaded guilty to intentionally crashing a rented airplane into a Montana lake in 1982, leading to the accidental drowning of his girlfriend, has been ordered to pay US$34,500 in restitution.

Jaroslaw (Jerry) Ambrozuk also must pay $1,000 in fines as part of his sentence for the death of Dianne Babcock, a judge ruled Thursday.

District Judge Stewart Stadler ruled Ambrozuk, 43, must pay $19,500 to the owner of the plane he crashed in Little Bitterroot Lake, $10,000 in prosecution and court costs and $5,000 to the Babcock family for funeral expenses.

Last week Ambrozuk was given concurrent 10-year suspended sentences for felony criminal endangerment and felony criminal mischief.

Under the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop a charge of theft of the airplane.

However, County Attorney Ed Corrigan has said Ambrozuk will still see additional prison time beyond the time he has spent in jail since his arrest last year.

That's because he has also agreed to plead guilty to a charge that stems from fraudulently obtaining a U.S. passport in Texas.

Ambrozuk was expected to returned to Texas next week, officials said.

A fugitive for 24 years, Ambrozuk was arrested last August in Plano, Texas, on a murder warrant.

Ambrozuk was 19 when he crashed a rented Cessna 150 into Little Bitterroot Lake on Aug. 22, 1982. Babcock, 18, drowned.

The plane was supposed to be flying from Penticton, B.C., to Vancouver but somehow ended up in a lake in Montana, 67 metres feet under water.

Ambrozuk said he and Babcock were eloping and told a friend that his girlfriend's seatbelt jammed and that he was unable to free her before the plane sank.

He says he wasn't thinking clearly after swimming way and didn't report the crash to authorities or call for help.

When police found the plane, with Babcock's body still inside, they said the seatbelt wasn't jammed and she didn't appear injured to the point of not being able to escape.

Ambrozuk fled into the United States where he adopted an alias and picked up a Social Security number and eventually obtained a passport.