Only minor injuries to pilot after small plane crashes near La Pêche, Que.

Published Aug 05, 2023 • Last updated 12 hours ago • 1 minute read

A photo from police in the MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais shows the plane after it crashed into a field near chemin des Erables in La Pêche on Saturday. Photo by MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais /Handout

A 67-year-old man from Gatineau received minor upper-body injuries, while a 57-year-old from Ottawa was uninjured after a small plane crashed near chemin des Erables in La Pêche on Saturday.

Police officers from the MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais were called to the scene just after 4 p.m.

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The plane is a four-seat American Aviation AA-5, according to the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register, which also showed that it had been manufactured in 1972.

Emergency services were on the scene for a few hours along with representatives of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, a police media release said, adding that the cause of the crash and the circumstances surrounding it were still under investigation.

No further details were immediately available.

La Pêche is north of Wakefield and a bit more than 40 kilometres north of Ottawa.

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