A man in his 50s has survived a small plane crash into a lake in Quebec’s Eastern Townships on Saturday, provincial police say.
They received calls at around around 4:30 p.m. from witnesses reporting the incident, which happened on Trois Lacs lake in Val-des-Sources.
The pilot of the small glider plane was rescued by boat and suffered only minor injuries. Emergency services took him to hospital for examination, provincial police say.
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The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) says it has not opened an investigation into the incident, saying it considers the event an accident.
SQ spokesperson Adam Marineau told Global News a “false maneuver” error by the pilot is believed to be the cause of the crash.
The Trois Lacs lake is a large body of water in Quebec shared by the regions of Val-des-Sources and Wotton in the Eastern Townships, and Saint-Rémi-de-Tingwick and Tingwick in the Centre-du-Québec region.
— with files from La Presse Canadienne
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