Renfrew County Ontario, Canada - Plane Crash - 10/8/2012

**peterose313** · October 31, 2010

Date: 10/8/2012

Time: Approx 1215 hrs

Location: Centennial Lake iao Lake Calabogie and Griffith in Renfrew County about 2 hours west of downtown Ottawa in what is considered to be cottage country. The crash scene is in some pretty thick bush and 4wd access only so crews are having to use atv's to get to the scene.

Frequency: Renfrew County Police, Fire, EMS

Units Operating: Renfrew County Fire, Ontario Provincial Police, ORNGE (Medevac that was later cancelled),EMS, NTSB (Toronto Division), JRCC (Joint Rescue Coordination Center), Ontario Provincial Police Emergency Response Team

Weather Conditions: Cloudy and Cool

Description Of Incident: Small plane crashed along the Tipperary Camp Trail between Centennial Lake and Centennial Lake Provincial Nature Preserve along Highway 65 in Renfrew County. An OPP officer o/s reported the plane as being "blown apart". The plane is being described as a Socata TBM700 and had taken off from the Carp Airport and was heading to Goderich Municipal Airport. It was scheduled to take off from Carp at 1207 hrs and land at Goderich around 1330 hours with 3 people aboard. It is now known that the pilot was by himself and not the owner.

1427: Investigator is coming from Toronto area and will be approx 4 hours. Crews need to photograph and secure the scene. Original flight plan confirmed 1 person on board but no official confirmation if that had changed or not.

1430: OPP confirm 1 person is dead

1624: OPP are just waiting on the coroner and 1 other person to arrive o/s and then most officers will be leaving until NTSB arrives. 2 officers will be staying o/s in the meantime. Dispatch said they've had a few people call in saying that they witnessed the plane go down and their names/numbers have been taken down in the event that NTSB needs them.

1630: TSB (Transport Safety Board) Canada are deploying 2 investigators, plane is a Socata TBM700. News reports are confirming that there was only 1 victim in the crash, the pilot.

1820: Body removal just arrived. They will have to bag up the remains and bring them out on ATV.

1844: Transport Canada has just arrived and are coming up to the scene.

http://maps.google.c...ved=0CCEQ8gEwAA (map of the area)

http://www.thestar.c...centennial-lake

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...lane-crash.html

http://ottawa.ctvnew...abogie-1.987644

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/SOCATA_TBM (description of plane with picture)

http://www.newswire....labogie-ontario

Reporters: peterose313

Edited October 9, 2012 by peterose313