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Plane flips over beside Carlyle airport runway

Transportation Canada is investigating a plane rollover at Carlyle, Saskatchewan. RCMP / Supplied

CARLYLY, Sask. – Emergency services were called to a plane rollover at the Carlyle airport on Tuesday morning.

At 10:21 a.m., RCMP responded to a report of a single engine Cessna 172 aircraft that ran off the runway and flipped over.

A lone male pilot was the only one aboard was not injured.

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RCMP say the pilot was completing training exercises and was taxiing on the runway when the plane strayed from the runway.

Transportation Canada is treating the incident as a “ground accident.”

The airport has been reopened after a brief closure for investigators.

Transportation Canada is investigating a plane rollover at Carlyle, Saskatchewan. (RCMP / Supplied). RCMP / Supplied

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