The pilot of a Grumman Ag Cat was uninjured after the aircraft clipped a tree and crashed near Elliot Lake in northern Ontario Monday.
Pilot John Wilkins was trying to find the Elliot Lake Airport in low cloud when he clipped a tree about 4 km. from the runway.
After the crash, he was able to radio an overflying Air Canada flight, which started the chain of events for the rescue. He was out of the bush, via OPP helicopter, about four hours after the crash.
Family members watched as a homebuilt (type unknown) aircraft struggled to land at a private airstrip near Lumby, B.C. on Aug. 5, crashed and burned.
Peter Huwer, 53 and his brother Joe, 45, died in the crash. They were hosting an annual fly-in on the strip near their property in a valley between Lumby and Mabel Lake.
Witnesses said the aircraft was making its third attempt to land in high winds when the accident occurred. The Transportation Safety Board will not be investigating.
The accident site is about 40 km northeast of Vernon, B.C.
After a weather cancellation Saturday, the Canadian International Air Show went ahead as scheduled Sunday and Monday.
High winds created choppy conditions on Lake Ontario and those manning the rescue boats on station in case of an accident determined the water state would make response too difficult and dangerous.
The show is held over the lake in front of the Canadian National Exhibition grounds. It stages from Billy Mitchell Airport (Toronto City Centre).
The B.C. government is suing Transport Canada and those who owned, manufactured and maintained a hot air balloon involved in a terrible accident in South Surrey, near Vancouver, in August of 2007.
A mother and her grown daughter died after they were unable to get out of the burning balloon basket after it broke its tether and shot into the air, propelled by a propane fire. Eleven others, including the pilot and balloon owner Stephen Pennock, jumped from the rising aircraft, suffering a range of injuries.
The provincial government recently enacted legislation allowing it to try to recover the cost of healthcare provided to citizens injured due to negligence or criminal activity.
In this case, the government is alleging that Transport Canada allowed Pennock to conduct commercial flights without proper oversight. It's also suing Doug Scott Aircraft Repair, the company that maintained the balloon and its manufacturer Aerostar International/Raven Industries.
In 2009, the Transportation Safety Board recommended Transport Canada beef up regulations and inspections of commercial balloon operations in light of the Surrey disaster and another accident in Manitoba.
Veteran astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station.
Hadfield will be on the station for seven months after being blasted into orbit on a Soyuz spacecraft in December of 2012. Starting in March of 2013, he will command the space station for three months and will share the station with five other astronauts.
"To be trusted on their lives … is a tremendous honour that all of us share," he told CBC News.
Hadfield has been in space twice, in 1995 on a journey to the Russian space station Mir. In 2001, he attached the Canadarm 2 to the ISS.
He was in charge of space station operations for NASA from 2006 to 2008. In 2009, he took a hiatus and was one of the pilots for Hawk One, the F-86 Sabre that appeared in numerous air shows to commemorate 100 years of flight in Canada.
During his first four months aboard the space station, Hadfield will be a flight engineer, working on experiments and perhaps taking a spacewalk.
As commander, he'll oversee the day-to-day operations of the station, take responsibility for safety and make sure the work gets done.
He'll be back on Earth in June of 2013.
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