Close X
    Monday, December 2, 2024
    ADVT 
    National

    B.C. Plane Crash Sends One To Hospital, Closes Highway 97 In Southern Okanagan

    The Canadian Press, 08 Jul, 2015 09:53 AM
      OSOYOOS, B.C. — The Transportation Safety Board says a single-engine plane has crashed on a highway near a small town in British Columbia's southern Okanagan.
       
      Spokesman Bill Yearwood says the plane ended up on Highway 97 near Osoyoos on Tuesday evening and its only occupant escaped before flames engulfed the aircraft.
       
      Yearwood says investigators don't know why the plane crashed, although Osoyoos RCMP Sgt. Randy Bosch says it hit a semi-trailer.
       
      Yearwood says firefighters extinguished the flames and an ambulance transported the pilot to hospital.
       
      The Ministry of Transportation's DriveBC website says Highway 97 is closed in both directions two kilometres north of the junction with Highway 3 because of the crash.
       
      Yearwood says the agency is assessing the incident to determine what level of investigation will be necessary.
      Prev Next

      MORE National ARTICLES

      Emojis The Modern Day Answer To Cave Paintings, One Tweet And Text At A Time

      Emojis The Modern Day Answer To Cave Paintings, One Tweet And Text At A Time
        TORONTO — People around the world have pledged their love, expressed their frustrations and declared their pressing need for pizza in billions of tweets in the last two years, all using emojis.

      Emojis The Modern Day Answer To Cave Paintings, One Tweet And Text At A Time

      Groups Seek Court Order To Ease New Voter ID Rules For Fall Federal Election

      Groups Seek Court Order To Ease New Voter ID Rules For Fall Federal Election
      OTTAWA — A left-leaning advocacy organization and a national student group will be in Ontario Superior Court on Thursday and Friday hoping to relax voter identification rules for the looming federal election.

      Groups Seek Court Order To Ease New Voter ID Rules For Fall Federal Election

      Saskatoon Police Finish Search Of Jet Diverted To City Tuesday Night

      Saskatoon Police Finish Search Of Jet Diverted To City Tuesday Night
      An explosives team has completed its search of the jet and determined that there was no explosive device on board.

      Saskatoon Police Finish Search Of Jet Diverted To City Tuesday Night

      Smoke So Thick It's Making Saskatchewan Fires Less Volatile, Official Says

      Smoke So Thick It's Making Saskatchewan Fires Less Volatile, Official Says
      Roberts said conditions in Saskatchewan are so susceptible to fires due to an unusually dry winter followed by an early spring. He said evacuations could 

      Smoke So Thick It's Making Saskatchewan Fires Less Volatile, Official Says

      Woman Sexually Assaulted By Brother Of Serial Killer Robert Pickton Awarded $45,000

      Woman Sexually Assaulted By Brother Of Serial Killer Robert Pickton Awarded $45,000
      A B.C. Supreme Court jury has ruled that David Pickton inflicted psychological trauma on a woman after assaulting her more than two decades ago.

      Woman Sexually Assaulted By Brother Of Serial Killer Robert Pickton Awarded $45,000

      Air Quality Advisory Extended For Eastern Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley

      Air Quality Advisory Extended For Eastern Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley
      A Metro Vancouver statement says high concentrations of ground-level ozone are expected to persist throughout the day.

      Air Quality Advisory Extended For Eastern Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley

      PrevNext