Nova Scotia: Small plane crashes at airport

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Saturday, May. 06, 2000

Small plane crashes at airport injuring four on board

SYDNEY, N.S. (CP) -- A small, single-engine plane crashed near an airport runway Saturday, injuring the four teenagers on board.

Three of the people, all between the ages of 15 to 18, walked away from the crash with minor injuries, said Morris Green of the provincial Health Department. Green said the fourth, an 18-year-old male and the pilot, was in serious condition.

He was taken to the Cape Breton Regional Hospital shortly after the crash, which occurred at the Sydney Airport just before 2 p.m. Green said an air ambulance was flying to the hospital and might transfer the young man to the Queen Elizabeth Health Sciences Centre in Halifax.

The three other passengers, all women between the ages of 15 to 17, were being treated for broken bones and bruises at a hospital in Glace Bay, N.S.

Little was known about how the crash happened, but Green said it went down a small distance from the runway shortly after it took off at the airport.

Three ambulances were dispatched to the crash site almost immediately after it went down.

Green wasn't sure what type of plane it was. A reporter on the scene said the wings were badly skewed and the nose was severely damaged.

The identities of the passengers and pilot, all from the Sydney area, had not been released.

Officials from the Transportation Safety Board were on their way to the scene to investigate.

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), May 06, 2000


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