Man dies after stealing, crashing small plane in Peterborough: police
Posted Aug 12, 2016 05:30:05 AM.
Last Updated Aug 12, 2016 11:36:30 AM.
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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – Police say a man who stole a small plane from a rural airport in the Greater Toronto Area died Friday after crashing the aircraft onto a street in a southern Ontario city.
Police in Peterborough say the man in his 20s was the only person in the Piper aircraft when it went down just after 1 a.m.
Insp. Lynne Buehler said the man is believed to have stolen the small plane sometime on Thursday night, though she wouldn’t specify which rural airport the craft was taken from.
She says the man was found dead by emergency crews who responded to the crash site, located near a mall in Peterborough.
Buehler says police were able to identify the owner of the plane, which is how officers established that the aircraft had been stolen.
The Transportation Safety Board has sent staff to the crash site.
