The pilot of a small airplane that crashed near the Ottawa airport on July 31 has died, according to an official with the Transportation Safety Board (TSB).
The Grumman AA-5A aircraft crashed in a wooded area near Riverside Drive and Hunt Club Road just before 6 p.m. local time, senior investigator with the TSB Jean-Pierre Régnier told reporters the morning of Aug. 1.
The plane landed in a tree, about 30 feet off the ground, a spokesperson with the Ottawa Paramedic Service (OPS) told The Epoch Times.
“There were three occupants on the plane. So because the plane was up in the air, there were also live wires that were near the aircraft,” Marc-Antoine Deschamps, superintendent of public information for the OPS, said in an interview….