Small plane crashes on Markham road | 24CA News

A small airplane crash-landed on a Markham street close to Buttonville Airport on Monday, York Regional Police confirmed.

Police stated the airplane, a Slingsby T67C, was coming in to land round midday when it someway wound up on sixteenth Avenue, close to the airport. 

Neither of the 2 individuals on board have been injured, police stated, whereas pictures from the scene confirmed the airplane seems to have sustained minimal harm. 

Fire crews have been known as to the scene, however police stated there was no fireplace.

It’s nonetheless unclear why the pilot landed on the roadway.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB), an impartial company that investigates air, marine, pipeline and practice transportation incidents, stated it can be sending a group to collect data and assess what occurred.

The TSB notes it doesn’t assign fault or decide civil or felony legal responsibility.

York police closed a bit of sixteenth Avenue between Woodbine Avenue and Highway 404 to analyze however the street has now reopened. Traffic cameras did not seize the touchdown however did present quite a few autos on the street following the incident.

This is not the primary time this has occurred on this space.

In 2021, a small airplane took off from Buttonville earlier than experiencing mechanical points, forcing it to land on the much-busier Highway 407, simply east of Woodbine Avenue.