No further details on the pilot were made public, and the RCMP are continuing their investigation on scene.
Dianne Wylie, a former flight attendant based out of Nanaimo, lives a few doors down from the property and told NanaimoNewsNOW on scene she woke up to the sound of the plane’s engine.
“It was early in the morning, and I heard an old airplane sound…then it got louder and louder. I thought, ‘if that’s an airplane, he’s got to pick it up, because he’s gonna (crash)’ and then it went really loud, and then there was nothing, just silence.”
She said it’s not uncommon for motorists to use the area for aggressive burnouts, periodically causing localized noise.
Typically, those noises fade in and out as cars come and go from the neighbourhood, which was unlike this incident, Wylie recounted.
“You heard it, and it kept coming down and down and down, and then it got really loud and I just thought, is it going to hit us? Then there was nothing.”
The Transportation Safety Board said in a statement to NanaimoNewsNOW they’re aware of the situation and were “working with all parties involved to gather information.”
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