A federal authority has taken over the investigation into a fatal plane crash near Springbank Airport on Friday afternoon.
Workers from the Transport Safety Council of Canada (TSB) were on site Friday night and Saturday morning.
They were spotted spilling on debris that still encloses farmland and a ditch on the Trans-Canadian highway.
Witnesses to this section of the road on Friday said they saw the plane head north shortly after 3:30 p.m. They saw its altitude drop rapidly.
A driver told CTV News that the front of the small plane hit the top of a ditch just meters from the road before overturning and stopping facing south.
Passers-by were first on the spot.
The witness said that they managed to put out a small fire and get the passenger off the plane.
“A 22-year-old woman was transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital,” RCMP Const said. said Lindsay Ralph. “Officers have arrived on the scene, along with emergency services and the fire department.
The woman is in danger of death.
The pilot – a 45-year-old man – was pronounced dead on the spot.
Their names have not yet been released.
According to the identification of the tail of the aircraft, it is a Mooney M20K from 1981, which is a single-piston aircraft.
It appears to be privately owned.
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