One person was dead after two planes collided in South Glengarry on Saturday.
According to a news release by the Ontario Provincial Police, officers responded to a report of a collision involving two small planes in the area just north of Cornwall at around 11 a.m. on Saturday.
One plane landed safely, the release said, while the other crashed in a wooded area. The pilot of that aircraft was declared deceased at the scene.
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The OPP said that the Transportation Safety Board of Canada had been notified about the fatal crash and that TSB officials would be taking charge of the investigation.
In a prepared statement, the safety board said it had “deployed a team of investigators to the site of a mid-air collision involving two small aircraft that occurred near Cornwall, Ontario. The TSB will gather information and assess the occurrence.”
South Glengarry is a bit more than 100 kilometres southeast of Ottawa.
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