OTTAWA — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating after a man died and two were injured in small airplane crash near the Ottawa International Airport on Thursday.

Ottawa paramedics said 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 into trees.

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

Deschamps said 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 said the plane was a privately registered Grumman AA-5A.

Regional investigator Jean-Pierre Regnier said Friday morning that the

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