A pilot has been charged with impaired flying after a plane crash near Swift Current, Sask.
The crash happened at around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday when a small Cessna passenger plane went down in a field just after taking off from a grid road, four kilometres west of the city.
Swift Current RCMP said the plane clipped some trees and went down about 1,500 metres from where it took off.
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Firefighters had to plug a small fuel leak.
The two men in the plane suffered minor injuries.
The pilot and owner of the plane, Calvin Pahl, has been charged with impaired operation of a plane.
He was released from custody and will appear in Swift Current provincial court on June 27.
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