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Pilot Killed in Bush Plane Crash Near Lillooet Airport

The Transportation Safety Board is dispatching investigators to examine the wreckage and determine the cause.

Overview

  • RCMP said they were alerted just after 5 p.m. Wednesday to a bush plane down near Lillooet Airport in British Columbia.
  • Emergency responders pulled the pilot from the aircraft unconscious, and the pilot was pronounced dead at the scene.
  • B.C. Emergency Health Services reported multiple ambulances and a helicopter responded, and no patients were transported to hospital.
  • The Transportation Safety Board identified the aircraft as a privately registered Bushmaster Super 22.
  • The crash site was near the north end of the runway, and the safety board said a team of investigators will attend.