Saturday, February 09, 2013

Ottawa, Canada: Pilot, passenger escape injury as small plane lands in snowy field

Firefighters and Ottawa police officer near the scene of where a plane went down in the Greenbelt near Woodroffe Avenue and Slack Road in Ottawa on Saturday, February 9, 2013. No one was injured. 

A plane made an emergency landing in a field near Woodroffe Avenue and Slack Road, Feb. 9, 3013. 
A plane made an emergency landing in a field near Woodroffe Avenue and Slack Road, Feb. 9, 3013. 


Ottawa police Sgt. Christina Wolfe walked a kilometre to the site of an emergency landing by a small plane in a field near Woodroffe Avenue and Slack Road on Saturday, February 9, 2013. 

A tail can be seen near where a plane went down in the Greenbelt along Woodroffe Ave. near Slack Rd. in Ottawa on Saturday, February 9, 2013. Police say the plane landed belly down and no one was injured.

Firefighters on snowmobile and Ottawa police officer walking through snow en route to the site of an emergency landing by a small plane in a field near Woodroffe Avenue and Slack Road in Ottawa on Saturday, February 9, 2013.
Ottawa police Sgt. Christina Wolfe walked a kilometre to the site of an emergency landing by a small plane in a field near Woodroffe Avenue and Slack Road on Saturday, February 9, 2013. 
Ottawa emergency vehicles line the Transitway near the scene where a plane went down in the Greenbelt along Woodroffe Ave. near Slack Rd. in Ottawa on Saturday, February 9, 2013. The plane landed belly down and no one was injured. 

OTTAWA — Ottawa firefighters waded through knee-deep snow to get to a plane after it made an emergency landing in a field Saturday afternoon. 

 Ottawa Fire Services were called to the area of Woodroffe Avenue and Slack Road shortly after 2 p.m. after the plane, reported to have engine troubles, contacted airport firefighters.

The plane landed almost a kilometre into a field off Woodroffe Avenue, which made it difficult for emergency crews to get to the two people who were in the aircraft.

When the first four firefighters on scene walked through the snowy field, they saw two people standing beside the plane waving.

Firefighters carried a “rescue basket” that looks like toboggan and carries forcible entry tools to help free the two people in case they were trapped in the plane.

Firefighters shut off the fuel supply after they found the plane upright, sitting on it’s belly in the snow.

The plane didn’t appear to have any major damage.

Marc Messier, Ottawa Fire Services spokesman, said two snowmobiles were called in to take the patients to Ottawa paramedics who were waiting on the nearby transitway.

Ottawa paramedics said they assessed the two patients and they were not injured.

Ottawa police will hold the scene until Transport Canada investigators arrive.

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