By Justine Kelsie

One dead after plane crashes into field near Grande Prairie

Jul 31, 2018 | 3:27 PM

UPDATE 3 (10:18 p.m.) RCMP say the 43-year-old male pilot was from Saskatchewan. 
 

UPDATE 2 (5:36 p.m.) The Transportation Safety Board says they are sending two investigators from Edmonton to inspect the crash site east of Grande Prairie. 

The TSB has confirmed the lone male occupant of the ultra-light aircraft was fatally injured in the crash. They add that there was a post-impact fire. 

They will have more information once the investigation is complete.
 

UPDATE 1 (4:34 p.m.) RCMP have confirmed there was one person in the plane when it went down. The condition of the person has not been released.

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RCMP, Fire, and EMS were called in at approximately 2:03 p.m. 

Emergency crews are on the scene of an apparent plane crash east of Grande Prairie. 

Witnesses told the Everything GP newsroom that a small aircraft crashed into a canola field on Tuesday afternoon east of Range Road 53 south of Five Mile Hall.

“I was out spraying some thistle about a half mile away when a vehicle come up to me and said, ‘did you just see that plane go down?’,” said Kevin Pellerin, a witness to the incident.

Pellerin says the aircraft went down in his field.

A firefighter on the scene says the Transportation Safety Board has been called in. 

There is no word on injuries.

We will have more information as it becomes available.