The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is sending investigators to the site of a crash involving a Cessna 172 that occurred near Mapleton Township, Ont., Friday night.
OPP say the plane was found in a cornfield and that the four occupants – three men and one woman were found dead.
Mapleton Township is located north of Kitchener, Ont.
What: single engine Cessna 172 en route to Niagara Falls and then Toronto.
Where: Mapleton Township
When: August 24, 2012, 8:30 p.m.
Who: 4 aboard
Why: A 19 year old woman and 3 twenty year olds were in a rental plane sightseeing when it crashed in the middle of a 50 acre corn field. The plane went off radar about nineteen minutes before emergency crews were notified (8:39).
Witnesses saw the plane making spirals in the air before it pointed nose down, began sputtering and then the “the engine went dead silent and plummeted down. And within a second or two we heard a really loud bump.”
The wreckage was located at 10:30 pm. The farmer carved out a path for investigators with his tractor.
The remains have been taken to a Hamilton hospital.
