One lifeless after coaching flight crashes into lake east of Edmonton

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One individual is lifeless and one other in hospital after a small aircraft crashed right into a lake east of Edmonton.

Federal and municipal search and rescue companies responded Friday night after a coaching flight did not return on schedule.

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RCMP Cpl. Gina Slaney stated the aircraft was on a coaching flight out of Cooking Lake Airport and was reported overdue round 9 p.m.

Search and rescue crews discovered the plane in Beaverhill Lake simply after midnight, about 200 metres off the lake’s northwest shore.

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Crews extracted each occupants from the cockpit, one in all whom was declared lifeless on the scene. The opposite was transported to a hospital in Edmonton by STARS air ambulance.

RCMP didn’t say whether or not it was the flight teacher or pupil who was killed.

Tofield RCMP, Beaver County Fireplace & Rescue and a search and rescue crew out of Chilly Lake Assisted within the search. The Edmonton police helicopter additionally made a flyover.

The Division of Nationwide Defence’s Trenton Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Ontario first reported the aircraft as overdue, RCMP stated. The Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Security Board and the Transportation Security Board have been tasked with investigating the reason for the crash.

Beaverhill Lake is situated round 100 km east of Edmonton. It’s categorized as a heritage rangeland pure space and was named a wetland of worldwide significance in 1987.

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