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.
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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