A plane crashed in Scugog township on Saturday afternoon, sending a pilot to Port Perry hospital in serious condition.
The 61-year-old pilot suffered possible leg and head injuries, after witnesses driving by saw the plane crash and rushed to help.
According to reports the pilot had just taken off from a private airport around noon and was circling back to land when the plane suddenly went into a nose dive and crashed in a field near the southern edge of the Greenbank airport near highway 47 East between Port Perry and Uxbridge.
Transport Safety Bureau investigators will be continuing its investigation today, and they hope to speak with the pilot to find out more.
SCUGOG — A 61-year-old man was seriously injured on Saturday afternoon after a small plane crashed in a field just south of the Greenbank airport.
The man, the only occupant of the yellow, two-seater plane, suffered leg and possible head injuries, say Durham police.
He was helped from the plane by witnesses driving by who saw the plane crash just after noon on Dec. 12, said Staff-Sergeant Lox Colquhoun. They saw the plane fall from the sky and hurried to help the man, he added.
“We don’t know what happened. It was going along and it just nose-dived,” said Staff-Sergeant Colquhoun.
According to the witnesses, the plane “was going along and then it just fell from the sky. It didn’t bank, it just went into a nose-dive,” said the staff-sergeant.
The pilot was in and out of consciousness when he was helped from the plane and was transported to Port Perry hospital, said Staff-Sergeant Colquhoun. He was listed in stable condition on Saturday afternoon.
The plane crashed in a field on Scugog Line 9, just at the southern edge of the Greenbank airport, which was visible from the accident scene. The aircraft was badly damaged and the passenger compartment was crushed.
Durham police remained at the scene on Saturday afternoon, waiting for Transportation Safety Board officials who were called to investigate the crash. Firefighters from the Scugog Fire Department were also sent to the crash site.
Source: http://www.durhamregion.com
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