By paNOW Staff

Cleanup completed, cause of weekend plane crash still unknown

Oct 13, 2015 | 9:44 AM

Things are back to normal at the Prince Albert Municipal Airport following a plane crash that took place during the long weekend. Airport manager Cory Nygaard confirmed the cleanup is complete.

A single engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff at 2 p.m. on Monday Oct. 12.

There were only two people on board the aircraft when it lost control including the 40-year-old pilot and his thirteen-year-old daughter. Neither were hurt as a result of the incident.

One of the airport runways was shut down for several hours due to the crash. Flights to Stony Rapids and Wallaston Lake were delayed during cleanup, while some flights into Prince Albert were delayed or cancelled.

Nygaard said the aircraft lost control from a relatively low height.

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“They never did get off the ground very far and when they came down they landed pretty hard and they hit the runway and skidded off the runway just on the grass on the edge of the runway,” he said.

Nygaard said the cause of the accident is still unknown and the incident is currently being investigated by Transport Canada.

“We do our own investigation from an airport standpoint documentation of the details of the event things like that but the airport and the city are not experts in airplanes and aviation that is Transport Canada,” said Nygaard.

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by paNOW Staff

Cleanup completed, cause of weekend plane crash still unknown

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