UPDATE: Transportation Safety Board to investigate plane crash near Carp Airport

By Mike Vlasveld

Posted Feb 10, 2021 06:37:00 PM.

Ottawa Fire Services has a blaze under control after a small plane crashed in a wooded area south of Carp Airport.

Emergency crews responded to the incident just after 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 10.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is sending investigators to the scene. Ottawa fire officials says the TSB will confirm an injuries or fatalities in the crash.

Firefighters located the small plane in a wooded area south of the airport. The plane was on fire and crews used portable extinguishers to bring the fire under control before stretching a hose line into the woods to fully extinguish the fire. https://t.co/hR4kKDjjVv pic.twitter.com/lFZITsChdc

— Ottawa Fire Services (@OttFire) February 10, 2021

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