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Hamilton man dead after small plane crash near Brantford airport

The Transportation Safety Board has been called in to investigate a small plane crash in Brant County on Monday March 21, 2022. @opp_wr

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.

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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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