Pilot dead after small plane crashes into woods south of Carp Airport, Ottawa police say

The Ottawa Police Service is reporting a pilot has died after a small aircraft crashed at the Carp Airport.

An update posted on the service’s Twitter account said an aircraft had crashed at the airport shortly after 1 p.m. on Wednesday

Ottawa Fire Services said their crews arrived on-scene and located the aircraft in a small wooded area south of the airport. The plane was on fire, OFS said, and the flames were doused with portable extinguishers and finished off with a hose line.

Ottawa paramedics told Global News in a statement that its crews remain on-scene at the airport but no one was taken to a hospital.

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The Transportation Safety Board said in a statement Wednesday it is dispatching a team of investigators to Carp to assess “an accident involving a Blackshape BS100 airplane.”

Global News has reached out to the Carp Airport for additional information.

The Carp Airport lies 25 minutes west of downtown Ottawa on Thomas Argue Road.

— With files from Nick Westoll

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