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OTTAWA — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating after a man died and two were injured in small airplane crash near the Ottawa International Airport on Thursday.
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Ottawa paramedics said emergency crews responded to a wooded area near Riverside Drive and Hunt Club Road just before 6 p.m. after reports that the small plane crashed into trees.
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Supt. Marc-Antoine Deschamps said responders worked together to extricate the plane’s three occupants.
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Deschamps said the adult male pilot of the plane was pronounced dead at the scene, and a man and woman were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said the plane was a privately registered Grumman AA-5A.
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Regional investigator Jean-Pierre Regnier said Friday morning that the airplane was a registered aircraft based out of an airport in Gatineau, Que., near the capital.
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“It departed the Gatineau airport at approximately 17:35 local last night for a recreational sight seeing flight in the local area,” he said.
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“At some point in the flight, the pilot had engine problems. The engine sputtered and failed. The right engine cowling of the aircraft came open and there was a substantial loss of engine oil that was sprayed over the wind screen.”
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Regnier said the pilot flagged an emergency situation with Ottawa air traffic control and he was cleared to land on a runway at the airport.
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“Unfortunately, the aircraft lost altitude and collided with terrain in behind me at a distance of approximately 970 meters, or 3,100 feet from the threshold of runway,” he said.
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Regnier said four TSB investigators were at the scene along with police, fire, hydro crews and paramedics to conduct the investigation.
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He said a flatbed and a crane would be on the scene on Friday to recover the aircraft.
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“The TSB will continue its investigation looking at aircraft data, pilot information, weather, NAV Canada audio and radar tapes, etcetera,” he said.
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Ladas Giriunas, who lives near the airport, said he saw emergency crews rushing to the crash location on Thursday but he didn’t see the crash or hear any sound.
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“Because we’re so close to the airport, we see planes flying every day over our heads … so we always think of that, someday something could happen. And so it did happen, but it wasn’t luckily a large plane,” he said.
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“That’s always on your mind when you’re living at the airport.”
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The Ottawa International Airport Authority said the airport’s fire services responded to the crash along with city firefighters, but airport operations were not affected.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 1, 2025.
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