The pilot of a twin-engine plane is dead after the plane crashed onto a Powell River street Monday.
Bill Yearwood of the Transportation Safety Board said the Piper aircraft crashed about 11 a.m. on Joyce Avenue, near the town’s Safeway store.
The sole person on board, the pilot, was killed in the crash.
Cpl. Aubrey Hachey of the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre said the PA-30 Comanche airplane was believed to be flying in from Pitt Meadows when it crashed in brush on the side of the road. No one on the ground was injured, and an ambulance arrived quickly at the scene.
Kyle Ewasiuk, a director of the Golden Ears Flying Club, confirmed that the dead pilot had kept his airplane at the Pitt Meadows Airport but was not a member of the club. He knew little else about the man.
Powell River resident Frank Clayton posted on Facebook saying: “Today I witnessed a plane crash in Powell River, next to the Safeway parking lot. It was very traumatic.”
