{"id":409661,"date":"2025-11-28T02:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/409661\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T02:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:22:12","slug":"then-there-was-nothing-just-silence-pilot-killed-in-early-morning-plane-crash-southwest-of-nanaimo-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/409661\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Then there was nothing, just silence:\u2019 pilot killed in early morning plane crash southwest of Nanaimo | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No further details on the pilot were made public, and the RCMP are continuing their investigation on scene.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s engine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was early in the morning, and I heard an old airplane sound\u2026then it got louder and louder. I thought, \u2018if that\u2019s an airplane, he\u2019s got to pick it up, because he\u2019s gonna (crash)\u2019 and then it went really loud, and then there was nothing, just silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said it\u2019s not uncommon for motorists to use the area for aggressive burnouts, periodically causing localized noise.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, those noises fade in and out as cars come and go from the neighbourhood, which was unlike this incident, Wylie recounted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Transportation Safety Board said in a statement to NanaimoNewsNOW they\u2019re aware of the situation and were \u201cworking with all parties involved to gather information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Subscribe to our daily news wrap.<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/nanaimonewsnow.com\/news-wrap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local news delivered to your email inbox every evening.<\/a> Stay up to date on everything Nanaimo and Oceanside.<\/p>\n<p>info@nanaimonewsnow.com<\/p>\n<p><b>Follow us on:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nanaimonewsnow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter (X)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nanaimonewsnow.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/everythingnanaimo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No further details on the pilot were made public, and the RCMP are continuing their investigation on scene.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":409662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[104,2147,23406,23401,23407,23400,23402,23403,50,18010,23404,23405,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-409661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-central-vancouver-island","11":"tag-nanaimo","12":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","13":"tag-nanaimo-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","15":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-oceanside","18":"tag-parksville","19":"tag-qualicum","20":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115624945020450439","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409661","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=409661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}