The occupants of a small plane have been found safe after the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing on a farmer’s field in northwestern Alberta on Christmas Day.
Emergency crews were called to a report of a downed aircraft Wednesday evening near Bear Lake, after it had lost power shortly after taking off from the airport in Grande Prairie.
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The location of the single-engine Cessna 150 was initially unknown.
RCMP, fire departments and a search-and-rescue team were called out.
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STARS air ambulance eventually spotted the undamaged plane in a field right along Bear Lake near the Grandview Hutterite Colony later in the evening.
The plane had two people on board, and they were located unharmed.
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