{"id":109302,"date":"2025-08-01T04:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109302\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:08:11","slug":"small-plane-with-3-aboard-crashes-west-of-ottawa-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109302\/","title":{"rendered":"Small plane with 3 aboard crashes west of Ottawa airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small aircraft with three people aboard crashed down in Ottawa just west of the city&#8217;s airport on Thursday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It happened shortly before 6 p.m. in the area of Riverside Drive and West Hunt Club Road. A photo shared by one\u00a0resident showed a plane wedged in the\u00a0trees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services responded at 5:55 p.m., according to the Ottawa Paramedic Service. One man and one woman were rescued from the plane and taken to the hospital in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marc Antoine Deschamps, a spokesperson for the paramedic service, said it took a significant effort by emergency services to rescue those two people from the plane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A third person remained onboard and their condition could not be confirmed yet, he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"crash\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/crash.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7501589319771138\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>A resident surveys the wreckage. (Submitted)<\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Safety Board\u00a0Canada (TSB) said it has two investigators at the scene. The plane involved was a privately-registered Grumman AA-5A, the agency confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa Airport Fire Service also responded to the crash and operations at the airport\u00a0remained normal, according to the Ottawa International Airport Authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Riverside Drive\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/riverside-drive.jpeg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>This photo looking south on Riverside Drive shows emergency response vehicles in the distance.  (Nkele Martin\/CBC)Resident feared crash at neighbour&#8217;s house<\/p>\n<p>Pablo Coles lives on an\u00a0offshoot of Riverside Drive where the plane went down in the bush.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He saw the plane approach the area at a low altitude and\u00a0called 911 as soon as he heard a bang, which he feared was the plane crashing into a neighbour&#8217;s house.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coles ran into the street and saw instead that the plane was\u00a0&#8220;hung up in the trees and power lines.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A lot of gasoline leaked from the scene, he said. The fire department said it was working to mitigate\u00a0fuel spillage from the crash into the Rideau River.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coles\u00a0also saw the man being escorted by emergency workers from the plane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very sad for the people inside,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small aircraft with three people aboard crashed down in Ottawa just west of the city&#8217;s airport on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-109302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114951547114201624","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}