OTTAWA — Ottawa paramedics say a man is dead after the small airplane he was piloting crashed into trees near the city’s airport on Thursday.

Emergency crews responded to a wooded area near Riverside Drive and Hunt Club Road just before 6 p.m. after reports that the small plane crashed.

Supt. Marc-Antoine Deschamps says responders worked together to extricate the plane’s three occupants.

Deschamps says the adult male pilot of the plane was pronounced dead at the scene, and a man and woman were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says they are investigating and the plane was a privately registered Grumman AA-5A.

The Ottawa International Airport Authority says the airport’s fire services responded to the crash along with city f

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