Ottawa – Canada’s Transport Safety Board is investigating after the death of an individual and was injured in a small airplane accident near Ottawa International Airport on two Thursdays.
Ottawa Paramedics said the emergency employees replied in reports before 6 pm in a wooden area near Rivaraside Drive and Hunt Club Road that the small aircraft crashed into trees.
Suit. Mark-Antoine Deschamps said that the respondents worked together to evacuate the three residents of the aircraft.
Deschamps stated that the adult male pilot of the aircraft was declared dead on the spot, and a man and woman were rushed to the hospital with non-thunderstorms.
The Transport Safety Board of Canada said that the aircraft was a privately registered Gumman AA -5A.
The regional investigator Jean-Pierre Render said on Friday morning that the airplane was a registered aircraft out of an airport in Gatinue, Q near the capital.
He said, “It sent Gatino Airport at around 17:35 last night for an entertaining vision to see the flight in the local area.”
“At some point of flight, the pilot had an engine problem. The engine spit and failed. The correct engine of the aircraft came open open and the engine oil suffered a sufficient loss of oil that was sprayed on the wind screen.”
The Render said that the pilot flagged off an emergency with Ottawa Air Traffic Control and was approved to land on a runway at the airport.
“Unfortunately, the aircraft lost the height and collided with the area behind me at a distance of about 970 meters or the threshold of the runway,” he said.
Regnier said that four TSB investigators were at the scene to conduct the investigation along with police, fire, hydro crew and paramedics.
He said that a flatbed and a crane would be on the spot on Friday to fix the aircraft.
“TSB will continue its investigation, looking at the aircraft data, pilot information, weather, Nav Canada audio and radar tape, etc., etc.,” he said.
Ladas Giriunas, who lives near the airport, said that he saw the emergency employees running at the accident on Thursday, but did not see the accident or heard any voice.
“Because we are very close to the airport, we see that the aircraft fly on our head every day … so we always think about it, someday something can happen. And that’s why it happened, but it was fortunately not a big aircraft,” he said.
“This is always in your mind when you are living at the airport.”
The Ottawa International Airport Authority said that the fire service services at the airport responded to the accident with the firefighters of the city, but the operations of the airport were not affected.
This report of Canadian Press was first published on 1 August 2025.
Maan Alhamidi and David Bacter, Canadian Press