Small plane crashes close to runway at Vermilion’s aerodrome
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A passenger and pilot were killed in a plane crash near Vermilion’s aerodrome just past noon Saturday.
RCMP responded to the scene, just 1.2 kilometres from the aerodrome’s runway. The pilot, a 46-year-old woman from Slave Lake, and the passenger, a 76-year-old man from Mannville, did not survive the crash.
RCMP Cpl. Gina Slaney said police responded after witnesses in the area said they had seen a plane go down.
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Nic Defalco, spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said that air-crash investigators have been dispatched, and would arrive at the crash scene some time Saturday evening.
“It’s too early to say anything about the incident,” said Defalco. Investigators can’t confirm if the plane was landing or taking off, or even the model of the aircraft.
“We are deploying investigators to the scene, and that’s basically where we’re at.”
The aerodrome has a single runway, at 966 metres long.
Vermilion is located 193 kilometres east of Edmonton.
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