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This photo looking south on Riverside Drive shows emergency response vehicles in the distance. (Nkele Martin\/CBC)<\/p>\nA small aircraft with three people aboard crashed down in Ottawa just west of the city’s airport on Thursday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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
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
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
A third person remained onboard and their condition could not be confirmed yet, he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This photo looking south on Riverside Drive shows emergency response vehicles in the distance. (Nkele Martin\/CBC)<\/p>\n
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
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
Residents heard,\u00a0saw crash<\/p>\n
Greg Carter lives on an\u00a0offshoot of Riverside Drive where the plane went down in the bush. He said he was out for a walk when the plane crashed around 30 metres behind him.<\/p>\n
“I heard a loud crash, sounded like a tree falling but a bit more intense,” he said. “It got hung up in the power lines.”<\/p>\n
He said he saw the power line arcing, flashing and making popping noises.<\/p>\n
The lines were live at the time of the crash, confirmed fire services, but Hydro Ottawa turned the power off before the rescue began.<\/p>\n
He was unsure what had hit the trees behind him. But as he approached, he could see the plane suspended in the air.<\/p>\n
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A resident surveys the wreckage. (Submitted)<\/p>\n
“I could see inside the cabin and I could see one person in the right seat and one person in the back seat, but I could not see the pilot seat,” he said.<\/p>\n
Pablo Coles also lives nearby.<\/p>\n
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’s house.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Coles ran into the street and saw instead that the plane was\u00a0“hung up in the trees and power lines.”<\/p>\n
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 a nearby\u00a0creek that leads to the Rideau River.<\/p>\n
“We are applying that foam to the fuel where there is a runoff,” said Ottawa Fire Services\u00a0public information officer\u00a0Nick DeFazio.<\/p>\n
Coles\u00a0also saw the man being escorted by emergency workers from the plane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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