RCMP officers at the scene of an ultralight plane crash in a canola field south of the Indus ultralight airstrip east of Calgary, Alberta, on August 16, 2012. (QMI Agency/MIKE DREW)
RCMP officers at the scene of an ultralight plane crash in a canola field south of the Indus ultralight airstrip east of Calgary, Alberta, on August 16, 2012. One person was injured and taken to hospital by STARS air ambulance. MIKE DREW/CALGARY SUN/QMI AGENCY
A member of the Strathmore RCMP inspects the wreckage of an ultralight plane after it crashed into a canola field south of Indus Thursday.
Photograph by: Colleen De Neve, Calgary Herald
Pilot hospitalized after plane crash east of Calgary
A man in his fifties is in hospital with serious injuries after his ultralight plane crashed near Indus, east of Calgary.
He is stable condition although he suffered potentially life-threatening injuries.
Witnesses say the plane climbed about 130 metres after taking off from the Indus Winters airport, when it suddenly began to descend. It then disappeared below the horizon.
The witnesses launched a search and found the ultralight in a canola field about two kilometres south of the Indus airport.
Emergency crews rushed to the scene and the STARS air ambulance flew the pilot to Calgary’s Foothills Hospital.
Strathmore RCMP and the Transportation Safety Board are investigating.
A man in his 50s suffered serious, possibly life-threatening injuries in an ultralight plane crash on Thursday afternoon.
A light blue ultralight plane crashed into a thick field of canola Thursday afternoon south of Indus.
Witnesses say the single engine plane took off from the Indus Winters airport around 12:30 p.m., reaching a height of 400 feet before disappearing behind the trees, according to Strathmore RCMP Cpl. Mark Harrison.
The two people from the airport then went and checked on him, finding the pilot unconscious under the plane.
Emergency crews — including the RCMP, EMS and STARS air ambulance — were all called to the scene by the airport, which is off Highway 22X at Range Road 282.
The plane was single engine with 20 foot wingspans and a canvas outerlay.
"There is extensive damage," Harrison said.
Once paramedics arrived, the man was taken for medical care. At the scene he was determined to have suffered serious, possibly life-threatening injuries.
"The crews on scene found him beside the airplane so he might have been extricated by one of the witnesses on scene," said EMS spokesman Ryan Collyer.
The man was taken to the Foothills Medical Centre by STARS.
Strathmore RCMP and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada are investigating the crash.
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