One person is dead following a biplane crash near the Brantford Airport.
The crash occurred around 11:15 a.m. near York Road, 100 metres north of Colborne Street West.
“It appears that it crash-landed into the parking lot of a business … and slid across that parking lot,” OPP Const. Mark Foster told CTV News.
The business itself, in which several people were working, wasn’t hit by the plane, but debris or flame may have impacted it.
The pilot, the only person aboard the Pearson Super Skybolt biplane, was killed.
Brant County OPP have identified the man as 65-year-old John Pearson. Officials say he had been flying personal and commercial aircraft for approximately 30 years.
Records show that the two-seater plane was based out of the Brantford Airport.
Little was left of the plane following the crash, which witnesses say looked like a fiery explosion.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating.
Last week, two people were seriously injured when an experiemental solarship crashed in a tobacco field west of the airport.
