PORT HOPE — Northumberland OPP released the name of the 50-year-old Kingston pilot, Robert Lake, who died as a result of his injuries sustained when he crashed his light aircraft near Port Hope.
Police said the Transportation Safety Board of Canada is currently investigating the crash.
PORT HOPE – A Kingston man was killed when the small plane he was piloting crashed north of Port Hope Wednesday morning
Emergency services were dispatched at 10:22 a.m. to a farm property on Browns Rd., just east of County Rd. 28.
Reports indicate the 50-year-old pilot had just taken off and was performing a test flight from a private landing strip when his plane went down.
Port Hope Fire Department Deputy Chief Jim Wheeler said, “people knew he’d taken off and hadn’t got far (but) no one was certain where it was.”
Emergency services personnel searched the area by foot and located the plane a short time later, approximately 100 yards from the strip.
The pilot was transported by ambulance to Northumberland Hills Hospital in Cobourg with a police escort. He was later airlifted to St. Michael’s hospital in Toronto where he was pronounced dead.
OPP said that the man’s identity wouldn’t be released until Thursday.
The federal Transportation Safety Board has been called to investigate the scene of the crash.
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