A pilot escaped with minor injuries after crashing a small plane while trying to land on a busy highway near Montreal Wednesday afternoon.
Quebec provincial police say they were called at about 1:40 p.m. to the crash site along Highway 20 in Boucherville, on Montreal’s South Shore.
Police spokeswoman Ève Brochu-Joubert says the 33-year-old pilot may have lost control of the plane shortly after takeoff and tried to land on the highway, but he ended up in a ditch instead.
He was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Brochu-Joubert says the pilot was alone in the plane, and no cars or pedestrians were hit.
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She says the damaged plane has been towed away, and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada will take over the investigation
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