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.
Get breaking National news
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
- Red Deer high school students come together to help classmate fighting cancer
- Kelowna business turns crash damage into colourful community artwork
- Gibbons residents begin voting to stay as a town — or dissolve into a hamlet
- Complexity growing as 911 fields more than 1 million calls for help each year in Calgary
_848x480_1397405763961.jpg?h=article-hero-560-keepratio&w=article-hero-small-keepratio&crop=1&quality=70&strip=all)
Comments
Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first.