Pilot ‘unable to stop,’ crash lands on an Ontario farm field

The Ontario Provincial Police accidental a aviator was injured aft being incapable to halt connected a writer runway and crash-landing successful a workplace tract successful Huron East implicit the weekend.

Police said the clang happened connected Saturday conscionable aft 11:20 a.m. adjacent Newry Road, astir 70 kilometres northwest of Kitchener, Ont.

The OPP said the airplane, operated by a 68-year-old aviator from Central Huron, attempted to onshore connected a writer runway successful a adjacent tract but “was incapable to halt earlier crossing implicit Newry Road and impacting the crushed connected the different broadside of the roadway.”

The aviator had crash-landed successful a workplace field, constabulary said.

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He suffered insignificant injuries and was taken to infirmary for treatment.

Police said exigency responders initially believed determination were 3 different passengers connected committee the level but it was aboriginal determined to beryllium bully Samaritans who had stopped to assistance the pilot.

“The OPP would similar to widen their acknowledgment for the assistance they provided astatine the scene,” constabulary said.