The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) says it is investigating a fatal small plane crash on a private property in the Brantford, Ont., area.
OPP say the plane went down east of the Brantford Municipal Airport in an open field late Monday afternoon and sent one person to hospital.
That pilot, 57-year-old John Bacon from Hamilton, has since been pronounced dead, according to Const. Conrad Vitalis in a social media post.
“Firefighters extricated the lone occupant and paramedics transported them to an area hospital where they were pronounced deceased by attending physicians,” Vitalis said in his post.
A spokesperson for the TSB told Global News the plane involved was a single engine Cessna 172RG aircraft attempting to land at the airport sometime after 5 p.m. on Monday.
“We will be deploying to the site today to gather information and assess the occurrence,” the TSB’s Alexandre Fournier said Tuesday.
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